保险王的特别按摩

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

　　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。

 台湾中国菜硕果仅存的大师老朱（郎雄）退休后，渐尝老年生活的诸多尴尬：每周日费心做出的一桌丰盛菜肴，并无将三个女儿（杨贵媚、吴倩莲、王渝文）齐齐拉到饭桌的吸引力，已经长大成人的她们，心里藏了许多比陪父亲吃饭更重要的事；多年老友的突然离世，令他在友情这块也有了缺口；而对厨师来讲最重要的味觉的丧失，则将其彻底推到人生的低谷。三个女儿虽各忙各事，却也操心着老朱的晚年生活，计划着为其找个老伴，但她们没料到老朱早已悄无声息地谈起了“黄昏恋”。吃惊过后，老朱最看重的继承了他做菜天赋的二女儿家倩因为自身的生活经历，对父亲、她与父亲的关系有了新的认识，而对老朱来讲更大的惊喜，还在后面。

 NJ（吴念真）是个很有原则的生意人，同妻子敏敏（金燕玲）、女儿婷婷（李凯莉）、儿子洋洋（张杨洋）以及外婆住在台北某所普通公寓里。小舅子的一场麻烦婚礼过后，因为外婆突然中风昏迷，他迎来更加混乱的日子。敏敏公司、家里两头跑，时常感觉自己要被耗空；婷婷一直为外婆的中风内疚，恋爱谈到中途发现自己不过是替代品；NJ更是麻烦重重，公司面临破产，他又不愿放下别人眼里一文不值的自尊。一家人里，似乎只有洋洋没有烦恼，他平静地用照相机拍着各种人的背面，帮他们长出另一双眼睛，然而，洋洋简简单单的一句话，道出更深的悲凉。