櫻莉々子 サクランボ

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

　　律师艾琳（劳拉·琳妮 Laura Linney 饰）接到一桩官司。一名神父由于用宗教手段——驱魔仪式来治疗女孩艾米莉的重病，因而使得艾米莉耽误了正确的药物治疗时间。法庭上，一场宗教与科学之争展开了。　　事件的开端，源于19岁女大学生艾米莉（珍妮弗·卡彭特Jennifer Carpenter饰）的恐怖遭遇。她在大学宿舍睡觉时，感觉有灵异恶魔来侵，接下来更为惊悚的事情陆续发生。艾米莉一反常态，她变得双眼发黑，行为怪异，整日活在犹豫恶魔缠身的梦魇中，艾米莉无法控制自己的意志，痛苦得生不如死。家人为她找来精神病医生，却毫无起色。无奈下，请来神父（汤姆·威尔金森 Tom Wilkinson 饰）一探究竟，才得知艾米莉被远古六恶魔上了身。万魔缠身的她，只有通过宗教仪式进行驱魔，才有可能逃出生天。　　神父的驱魔并没有挽救艾米莉，还引来了控告。无神论者却认为，恶魔缠身是无稽之谈。

影片改编自《下妻物语》等经典作品的原作---嶽本稔明的同名小说。故事讲述了得知女友一周后就要死亡的“我”和“她”的青春物语。

凯伦·吉兰、玛格丽特·苏菲·斯坦、杰梅因·福勒、凯文·尼伦、塔利亚·巴尔萨姆将主演喜剧新片《大器晚成》(Late Bloomers)，丽莎·斯蒂恩首导剧情长片，已在纽约杀青。                                                                      　　斯蒂恩的多部短片搭档安娜·格林菲尔德写剧本，松散基于她20多岁时居住在布鲁克林的经历，讲述露易丝(吉兰)是一个漫无目的的千禧一代，某天她醉醺醺地摔到了臀部，为此接受了物理治疗，在那里结识了一位不会说英语的年长波兰女士，两人成为了闺蜜。而正是这种不太可能的友谊让露易丝有勇气面对她一直在逃避的事情：她母亲的早发性老年痴呆症。                                                                      　　福勒饰演露易丝的室友/房东布里克，尼伦和巴尔萨姆饰演露易丝的父母。