巫毒激情

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

　　一名联邦调查局特工和佛罗里达州官员联手调查一系列未侦破的谋杀案。

 影片改编自2022年的同名独立恐怖游戏。背景设定在名为“The Quiet Rapture”的末日之后，一名囚犯被迫深入血红色的海洋，驾驶一艘锈迹斑斑的微型潜艇搜寻残存的自然资源。

　　讲述了地产集团二公子宋以昭为了争夺继承权，隐瞒身份，住进了夏天旅馆的阁楼，成为夏南笙的房客，意在拿下旅馆的拆迁同意书。随着宋以昭的入住，旅馆经历了种种麻烦，高傲自大的宋以昭与大大咧咧的夏南笙之间，发生了一系列啼笑皆非的事情。当宋以昭发现自己爱上夏南笙的时候，拆迁同意书已经被哥哥宋修获取，拆迁的挖掘机也已经开到了旅馆的门口，知道真相的夏南笙决定与宋以昭决裂....

　　五年前，一系列模仿名画场景的连环杀人案轰动纽约城，警探斯坦（Willem Dafoe 饰）受命调查此案，然而却迟迟没有进展，令其饱受舆论压力。斯坦以少女克莉斯特（Samantha MacIvor 饰）作诱饵吸引凶手，虽然成功击毙嫌疑犯艾迪，却也导致克莉斯特惨遭杀害。　　艾迪一案使斯坦得到警署嘉奖，顺利升职，不过他的心中始终对遇害少女怀有愧疚，并且此案背后似乎另有隐情。心中承受巨大内疚之情的斯坦沉溺酒精，愈加孤僻。五年后，类似案件再次出现，凶手似乎有意以斯坦为目标发出赤裸裸的挑战。斯坦不仅要面对这个狡猾且智商极高的对手，更要面对长久以来困扰自己的心魔……

　　五名美国业余摔跤选手艾历克斯（Thora Birch 饰）、托德、克莱尔、威利、谢尔顿，在教练带领下远赴东欧参加摔跤比赛，虽然他们输掉了比赛，但当晚仍兴致勃勃参加了派对，以致耽误了第二天开往敖德萨的火车，由于语言不通，他们一时买不到车票，一位说英语的金发女郎出现，带领他们登上了车站内的一列红色火车。　　甫一上车，队员们的护照便被形容猥琐的男乘务员收去，这列经过改装的列车上赌场、餐车、休息室一应俱全，队员们很快远离其他语言不通的乘客，躲在休息室玩起了真心话大冒险，然而在游戏进行的过程中，托德消失在列车尾部，其他队员也一一失踪，艾历克斯很快发现，她要独自面对车上的几个活体器官摘除者……