出租车司机冒险记

好像一切都很糟糕

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

格吉（杀人鬼）

水底惊魂

　　阳光明媚的日子里，约翰（丹尼尔·佐瓦特 Daniel Zovatto 饰）和凯蒂（邦妮·戴尼森 Bonnie Dennison 饰）、麦特（克里斯·克罗伊 Chris Conroy 饰）、齐克（格里芬·纽曼 Griffin Newman 饰）、西蒙（约翰尼·奥希尼 Jonny Orsini 饰）和黛比（Mackenzie Rosman 饰）等五名好友，驱车来到一个毗邻湖边的僻静所在进行他们毕业前的纪念派对。他们划着小船来到湖中央，曾经有着恐怖记忆的约翰对这片水域颇多忌惮，但是他胆大妄为的伙伴们则竞相跳入水中，享受戏水的快乐时光。谁知好景不长，先是小船遭到猛烈碰撞，接着黛比被一条怪鱼咬伤致死。　　年轻人的噩梦由此展开，他们的磨难还未就此结束，嗜血猎手渐次向他们逼近……