懷中祈禱

　　一位年輕的傳教士發現自己已故父親保守多年的秘密，于是從菲律賓前往西班牙去尋找父親的禁忌之愛。

Ay?e, 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

　　在天眼尚未密布，監場保安仍會打瞌睡的二十世紀七十年代，名畫大盜就是會光天化日，大剌剌走進美術館，直接把獵物從墻上取下放入布袋運走。看似兒戲的一切，背后主謀還要是住在市郊、人畜無害的住家男人。凱莉·萊卡特完全棄用好萊塢盜寶片敘事公式，改以其擅長的左翼簡約主義鏡頭，捕捉觸犯藝術罪行者的日常生活、雙面人的言行處境，以及事件周遭人情冷暖。阿瑟多夫的抽象畫作未必是一個借口，但到頭來凸顯存在荒謬的公路逃亡，儼然為觀眾添加了不少欣賞和思考的層次。

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