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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

泰勒·汤姆林森（Taylor Tomlinson）在她的第四部喜剧特辑《浪子回头的女儿》（Prodigal Daughter）中，以一个关于解构信仰、处理宗教创伤、探索性取向和面对死亡恐惧的紧张新时刻回到了她的根本。

　　在二次世界大战后，即将结婚的花花公子开车到赌城作最后一次寻欢，不料邂逅了美丽的女歌手，并发现了她是赌城大亨巴格西的情妇。他该回到自己的规律生活中，还是继续追求这段冒险的爱情呢？名编剧家尼尔赛门由自己的爱情经历创作出本片，对男女之间的感情游戏有深刻的体会，所以剧情虽然简单，趣味性倒不弱。亚历克．鲍德温和金．贝辛格因拍摄本片而牵上红线，可见其演出投入。此外，金．贝辛格亲自主唱片中歌曲，颇有几分性感歌星的架势。

　　A portrait of actress Eleonora Duse.