爱之涡

一位外向、人缘好的酒吧老板，虽然平日喜欢与人群为伍，内心深处却一直隐藏着对十年前逝去恋人的细腻思念。每当他遇见容貌神似她的女子，总是不自觉地驻足凝望，深陷于回忆的漩涡中。

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

　　兰斯林（丹尼斯·奎德 Dennis Quaid 饰）警官同时也是一个单身父亲，因公务繁忙，他无暇照顾两个儿子，大儿子亚历克斯无形中时常扮演父亲的角色。最近兰斯林被一桩连续杀人案缠住，每个凶案现场都发现了至少四名嫌疑人的踪迹，并且统一留下了“过来看”的血色留言，死者死于悬挂的状态充满了宗教意味，兰斯林从人体悬挂的铁架入手，发现这一干罪犯以杀人作为宗教仪式，并且以启示录中记载的“天启四骑士”自居。第一个受害者的华裔养女克里斯汀（章子怡 饰）主动找到兰斯林，坦承了自己与连续杀人案的关系，但是这不能阻止更多人受害，兰斯林惊见自己最不愿意看到的事情发生了……

　　莫琳·达巴格是一位母亲，当她的前夫绑架了他们的小女儿阿米娜并消失在中东时，她的世界崩溃了。绝望而无情的莫琳与罗伯森合作，罗伯森是一名经验丰富的前海军陆战队员，也是儿童绑架案件的专家。这部电影以贝鲁特动荡的背景为背景，讲述了莫琳和罗伯逊陷入一个充满国际间谍、腐败和背叛的阴暗世界。随着时间的流逝，风险高得不可思议，莫琳必须在与时间的赛跑中面对不可能的选择。本片是一段紧张而感性的旅程，探索了一位母亲为拯救孩子所做的努力，即使她在每个转折点都面临着隐藏的危险。