欲望荒岛

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

 一个从事打扫工作的女子为纽约一座摩天大楼中的富人家工作，却被告知这里有一个供奉撒旦的邪教，每个月要杀一个人作为祭品，“今晚，选中了你……”

 影片由一系列音乐片断构成，由擅长歌舞巨片的马克·桑德里区执导。其中每一首插曲都以美国的节假日为线索，又都巧妙地集中到一对情敌的身上。本片获1943年第15届奥斯卡最佳编剧和最佳音乐奖提名！一家开设在公路边的旅馆，两个年轻的合伙人哈迪和海诺沃同时爱上了一位姑娘。海诺沃（由著名舞蹈家弗雷德·阿斯泰尔饰）尽管在爱情的追逐中连连占先，但最终还是败给了哈迪（由著名歌星宾·克罗斯比饰）。哈迪是位酷爱音乐的懒散的人，他退休回到新英格兰农村，每逢节假日，他的农场就成了娱乐总会……

　　焦急的母親菈葵兒（艾瑪蘇雷茲飾演）到銀行借錢，她必須在24小時內籌到35000歐元（約新台幣130萬元），否則她將再也見不到心愛的女兒。經過不斷懇求，銀行終於同意借款給她救急。不料在貸款手續快要完成之時，兩個蒙面搶匪闖入銀行，不但搶走所有錢，就連在場所有顧客與行員都成為人質。在分秒必爭的險境當中，菈葵兒決定無論付出什麼代價，都一定要拿到這筆錢全身而退…。究竟她該如何保住性命？又該如何籌錢保住女兒呢？