梅洛

　　20世纪40年代，美国某个依靠石油而发展起来的小镇。当地最大富豪彻斯特·康维（Ned Beatty 饰）的儿子艾尔姆（Jay R. Ferguson 饰）即将成婚，然而却有件事让彻斯特颇感烦恼。原来艾尔姆此前和妓女乔伊丝·雷克兰德（杰西卡•阿尔芭 Jessica Alba 饰）有染，为避免尴尬之事发生，彻斯特暗中授意警方驱逐乔伊丝，而小警察卢·福特（卡西·阿弗莱克 Casey Affleck 饰）成为了此项工作的具体执行者。卢表面内向顺从，内心却隐藏着不为人知的秘密。短短几周的相处，乔伊丝已然对他深深迷恋，不可自拔。谁知在最后关头，卢却对乔伊丝和艾尔姆痛下杀手，从此跌入万劫不复的黑色深渊中……　　本片根据吉姆·汤普森（Jim Thompson）的同名小说改编。

本片以乡村考古为背景，讲述少女露西与母亲卡罗琳重返家族故地时，意外揭开一段被岁月掩埋的亲情谜团。露西在两只神秘灵雀的指引下，与好友化身“小侦探”，通过老宅残片、褪色信件与家族旧物，逐步拼凑出曾祖母时代因战乱而断裂的情感纽带。这部别致的定格动画采用手工剪纸方式制作，创作团队用2000个纸偶和826个布景拍摄，堪称完成了一项不可能的工作。片中既有细腻舒缓的情绪铺陈，也不乏快速剪辑的惊险片段。导演安东尼·兰席奥以一段层层递进的冒险旅程为载体，娓娓道来几代人之间的情感牵绊，描绘出一部充满诗意、幽默和温情的动画佳作。

　　三毛（贾林 Jia Lin 饰）从来就是银幕上喜剧人物。这次，三毛从军了。抗日战争全面爆发了，无所事事的三毛一心想着为国立功，加入了军队。不料，新兵训练的时候就笑话百出。手榴弹实弹投掷训练时，三毛一不小心就将手榴弹投到了战壕里，搞得全军上下一片乌黑。稀里糊涂的三毛随后参加了一支敢死队，笑话百出的他和队友们竟一股全歼了敌军。　　抗敌有功，三毛高升到后勤部，不用再上战场了，却成了师长姨太太的跟班。整天被使唤也闹了不少笑话。不料兵败师长自杀，三毛又重投兵营。一次执行空降任务时，三毛和以前的知心战友遭到伏击，大难不死却落入深山。一等就等到了抗战结束，三毛和战友早已成了野人。

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