美妙的夜晚

　　1989年的寂静深夜，南哈特福特三名神职人员遭到屠杀。行凶者名叫玛莉娅·罗西（苏珊·克萝蕾 Suzan Crowley 饰），事后被诊断体内藏有七重人格。在此后的岁月里，她被带往意大利驱魔。时隔20年，玛莉娅的女儿伊莎贝拉·罗西（费尔南达·安德拉德 Fernanda Andrade 饰）决定拍摄一部关于母亲的纪录片，她启程前往罗马，见到了久违的母亲，而玛莉娅所说的话令她颇为震惊。为了探明母亲的病因，她在当地找到了两位瞒着教会偷偷进行驱魔的教士年轻驱魔师（赛门·克特曼 Simon Quarterman 与 伊凡·海慕特 Evan Helmuth 饰）。在他们的努力下，玛莉娅体内的魔鬼们渐渐显现出来……　　本片荣获2012年BMI电影与电视奖最佳电影配乐奖。

马诺哈拉·K在13岁时就凭借在影片《铁路少年》中的出色表演荣获印度国家电影奖最佳儿童演员奖。如今，二十出头的马诺哈拉初执导筒，将女作家索尼娅·S的获奖自传小说搬上银幕，讲述了一个白化病女孩的成长之路。片中，来自贫困家庭的索尼娅因为白化病在学校受到歧视和敌意，父亲置若罔闻、母亲有心但无力，她只能依靠自己。导演并没有向索尼娅投去同情目光，而是带着一定距离感去呈现她的处境，成功塑造了一个勇敢、乐天的女孩如何接纳自己并让白化病这个“缺点”成为特点。

　　梅家四姐妹父母早亡，多亏大姐大香（梅艳芳 饰）独立经营点心店，妹妹二香（柏安妮 饰）、三香（陈加玲 饰）和四香（袁洁莹 饰）才能顺利完成学业，出落成开朗可爱、美丽动人的大姑娘。三个妹妹吸引来无数的追求者，她们也各自找到了心仪之人。然而梅家有个不成文的规定，只有大姐出嫁后三个妹妹才能顺序出嫁，偏偏大香不重仪表，脾气又坏，男人们唯恐避之不及，这可愁坏了三个愁嫁的女孩。为了让姐姐早日找到如意郎君，她们和各自的男友商量帮大香物色一个合适的对象。　　三好小男人曾灶才（曾志伟 饰）被女友爱丝（吴君如 饰）抛弃，伤心欲绝之时，他被三姐妹找来追求冰山美人大香……

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