聊斋艳谭

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

　　李氏家族不曾向外界开放的藏书楼临渊阁突然遭窃，侦探白飞受邀前来协助调查。在神秘的密室现场，他发现这看似普通的盗窃案背后危机四伏，人人都似乎怀揣着不可告人的秘密。

影片取材自境外幸存人质真实自救经历。                                                                      　　驻外记者马笑（肖央 饰）和志愿医生潘文佳（齐溪 饰）夫妇，陪同工程师苗峰（郑恺 饰）赴郊区修理基站，当地局势突变。三人一路躲避恐怖组织的无差别袭击，最终还是被绑架沦为人质，并在狱中结识了华侨商人周伟杰（任达华 饰）。面对恐怖分子闻所未闻的屠杀暴行和以命换钱的勒索，他们历经105天，展开了一场惊心动魄的自救逃生。

在罗马遭遇婚礼灾难后心碎而归，一位滞留的新郎发现，一位执着的当地人和几位爱管闲事的旅人，竟让他的蜜月之旅焕然一新——证明了心碎有时只是新的开始。