四度诱惑

　　Troubled teens attend a Wilderness Therapy program in Utah's desert, navigating personal challenges amidst the harsh Outback environment.

人人都中头奖，难道人人都想中头奖？九十年代伊拉克经历军事及经济制裁，独裁者萨达姆无惧动乱，勒令全国为自己庆祝生日。九岁女孩「喜获头奖」成为学校代表，被迫接下为总统炮制生日蛋糕的国家级重任。然而通货膨胀、物资匮乏，鸡蛋面粉都是奢侈品，女孩带着宠物公鸡，从沼泽向城市出发搜罗食材，完成这项国家交给她的任务！首有伊拉克电影进军戛纳，编导借小女孩充满稚气却坚韧的目光，展现伊拉克从未被记录过的一面，献给在战乱下仍能找到爱与友谊的小孩。戛纳电影节金摄像机最佳首作。

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

　　埃及裔美国人安瓦•艾尔•伊布拉西米（奥玛尔•梅特瓦利 饰）大约二十年前，从埃及移民到了美国，与漂亮的美国姑娘伊莎贝拉•菲尔兹（莉丝•维瑟斯彭 饰）成了家，夫妻恩爱生活美满，育有一子，伊莎贝拉肚子里的第二胎也日渐成型。　　某日，安瓦•艾尔•伊布拉西米从南非出差回来，在华盛顿机场被神秘的黑衣人带走，原因是中央情报局认为身为化学品工程师的安瓦•艾尔•伊布拉西米是恐怖分子，想从他口中撬出有用的情报。倒霉的安瓦被“引渡”至埃及的开罗，交由驻扎在当地的中情局探员道格拉斯•弗里曼（杰克•吉伦哈尔 饰）和老奸巨猾的当地探员审讯。　　另一方面，身怀六甲的伊莎贝拉，坚信丈夫是无辜的，四下奔走，努力寻找丈夫的下落。期间，她虽然幸运地获得旧情人（彼得•萨斯加德 饰）的帮助，但终究不足以国家强势机构对抗，一筹莫展。　　与此同时，刚刚入行不久的特工道格拉斯•弗里曼，在目睹了CIA同事们对安瓦进行的非人道审讯时，也面临着良心的拷问。　　安瓦是不是恐怖分子？伊莎贝拉能否和丈夫团圆？中情局新手道格拉斯•弗里曼，究竟在这场暗战中发挥了怎样的作用？对这一切疑问的解答，必将引向对“引渡”政策的重新审视。