记忆奇旅

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

　　在为公司勤勤恳恳工作了十五年之后，亨利（让-皮埃尔·利奥德 Jean-Pierre Léaud 饰）却落得了一个被解雇的悲惨下场。心中充满愤懑的他在生活里也四处碰壁，绝望之中，他想到了自杀。可是，无论他使用什么法子，都无法成功赴死，就在这时，他在报纸上看到了一间聚集着黑道分子和杀手的小酒馆，他决定去那里试一试。　　亨利雇佣了一名杀手（肯尼斯·考利 Kenneth Colley 饰），让他来取自己的性命，然而，在此之后，亨利意外的邂逅了名叫玛格丽特（Margi Clarke 饰）的美丽卖花女孩，两人迅速擦出爱情的火花。生命有了继续下去的意义，亨利不想死了，然而，他却怎么也找不到当初和他签订了合约的杀手，这也就意味着，从此刻开始，他随时都有可能遭到杀手的暗杀。

　　15岁的艾利克斯来自一个天主教家庭，他希望自己将来能成为一个牧师。当他无意中发现并打开了一个神秘的盒子之后，放出了一个一心要占据他身体的恶魔。艾利克斯必须找到办法打败这个一直在折磨儿童的古老的恶魔，否则将会毁掉他和所有他爱的人。