暴君尼禄荒淫史2

　　在天眼尚未密布，监场保安仍会打瞌睡的二十世纪七十年代，名画大盗就是会光天化日，大剌剌走进美术馆，直接把猎物从墙上取下放入布袋运走。看似儿戏的一切，背后主谋还要是住在市郊、人畜无害的住家男人。凯莉·莱卡特完全弃用好莱坞盗宝片叙事公式，改以其擅长的左翼简约主义镜头，捕捉触犯艺术罪行者的日常生活、双面人的言行处境，以及事件周遭人情冷暖。阿瑟多夫的抽象画作未必是一个借口，但到头来凸显存在荒谬的公路逃亡，俨然为观众添加了不少欣赏和思考的层次。

　　格雷（菲利普·拉肖 Philippe Lacheau 饰）是“借口.com”公司的创始人，专门为需要“打掩护”的客户制造各种各样的借口和谎言。因为特殊的性质和高需求，公司的经营蒸蒸日上。一次偶然中，格雷邂逅了名为弗洛（艾罗娣·方坦 Élodie Fontan 饰）的女子，弗洛的天真和单纯深深的吸引着格雷，令后者坠入情网。格雷深信，她就是他命中注定要寻找的另一半。　　然而，令格雷头疼的是，弗洛是一个对“撒谎”零容忍的的人，如果告诉了她自己的真实身份，她一定会愤怒的拂袖而去。无奈之下，格雷只得用谎言将自己重重包装，在虚伪的假面下，格雷终于和弗洛走到了一起，可是当他到弗洛家做客时才发现，弗洛的父亲竟然就是自己的客户。

 年轻的马里恩·克兰（珍妮特·利 饰）在Phoenix工作，深受老板洛厄里（沃恩·泰勒 饰）信任。男友萨姆·卢米斯（约翰·加文 饰）在Fairvale经营一家五金店，因要替亡父还债又要支付前妻赡养费而无力再婚，只能借出差的机会偶尔来与马里恩幽会。马里恩对此感到不满，于是在周五下午趁机携四万美元公款驾车潜逃。可是马里恩的潜逃之路并不顺利：先是在出城的时候被洛厄里目击，周六一大早又被警察怀疑。花了七百美元以旧车换新车之后，马里恩继续忐忑地行驶。入夜后，天降大雨，视线模糊，无法行驶，马里恩只得将车泊入路边的贝茨汽车旅馆投宿。老板诺尔曼（安东尼·珀金斯 饰）十分友善，试图邀请马里恩到家里共进晚餐，可惜被凶恶的母亲粗暴阻止，只得将晚餐端至旅馆客厅。马里恩在客厅一边进餐一边与诺尔曼交谈，终于决定周日返回Phoenix。用餐完毕，马里恩回房沐浴。这时，一个老妇的身影突然出现在卫生间……

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