美味的爱情和精灵

Ayşe, Ali, Mehmet and Zeynep are middle-class millennials struggling to make ends meet in Istanbul. Either still living with their parents or hardly getting by without help from their families, they are all beset by similar woes: money crunch, joblessness, social isolation. In view of the world’s horrors that Zeynep enumerates in her diary entries, these are minor problems, ‘slight disasters’, but they are all-consuming, at least to the extent of making them cry in the still of the night. 　　However, Umut Subasi’s first feature, Almost Entirely a Slight Disaster, is not a melodrama. With an appealingly light touch, it diagnoses the malaise of a generation that has run up against a dead end, one whose future prospects are indistinguishable from a game of chance. This is a world where astrology, the lottery and online personality tests compete with visa and job applications as life-shaping elements. 　　Fittingly, the film is structured around chance and coincidence, with its handful of characters encountering each other in every permutation, as though there were no world outside this small social bubble. With self-aware, frontal framing that pins characters to their surroundings and a counterintuitive musical score that turns pathos into humour, Subasi offers a social-media movie without social media, one whose characters are united in their double lives and frustrated desires. 　　源自：https://iffr.com/en/iffr/2023/films/almost-entirely-a-slight-disaster

　　Based on a true story. 1996, open sea. During his shift on a transatlantic ship’s deck, Joel, a religious Filipino sailor, discovers Dumitru, a Romanian stowaway hidden between some containers. If he is spotted by the Taiwanese officers running the vessel, Dumitru is at risk to be thrown overboard. Joel decides to hide him, as a sign of his gratitude towards God. Soon, a dangerous cat and mouse game begins. When his crew, his own friends, even God itself start to turn their backs on him, Joel learns that he has to face his cruel destiny alone.

 15岁的以色列小男孩莫塞斯（Pierre Boulanger 饰）和父亲（Pierre Boulanger 饰）住在巴黎蓝色大道一幢贫穷脏乱的公寓中。母亲（Isabelle Renauld 饰）离家出走，父亲整天沉迷于书本，还编造出一个并不存在的优秀的哥哥打击莫塞斯。本该享受童年快乐的小男孩压抑阴郁，在附近的流莺献出了自己的第一次。莫塞斯去附近的土耳其穆斯林亚伯拉罕先生（Omar Shariff 饰）的杂货店里偷盗，被亚伯拉罕发现。和蔼的老人原谅了眼前这个小男孩，并亲切地向他传授知识，一老一少从此展开一段弥足珍贵的忘年交……

　　The boarding house residents felt something strange in their residence. Rumors circulated that the cheap boarding house asked for a sacrifice in the form of someone's life. One of the apparitions they often saw was a terrifying pocong.