交换:朋友的妻子

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

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　　朱莉娅和莎拉（Belen Rueda 分饰）是一对孪生姐妹，这对美丽的姐妹花正当盛年时却罹患功能退化症。1年前，莎拉的双目完全失明，而朱莉娅的视力也在渐渐减退。某个晦暗之夜，莎拉上吊自杀。冥冥中自有感应，朱莉娅心中备感不安，次日她和丈夫艾萨克（Lluis Homar 饰）驱车赶往妹妹的住所，等待他们的恰是难以置信的噩耗。然而种种迹象表明，莎拉似乎并非自杀身亡，她生前的最后一段时光仿佛有一个神秘的男子作陪。　　朱莉娅尝试着追寻这些蛛丝马迹，她的举止令艾萨克甚为焦躁不安，而种种恐慌也让她的视力加速衰退。在黑暗即将降临的时刻，朱莉娅也隐约感知到一个来去无踪的男子时刻逡巡在自己的身旁……