美魔女的诱惑

　　这部新片名为《梦乡》（Dreamland），由曾在圣丹斯电影节摘得评审团特别奖的导演Miles Joris-Peyrafitte执导。故事背景设定在20世纪30年代的美国，经济萧条和沙尘暴肆虐着美国的普通百姓，一个15岁的男孩为了高额的赏金开始漫漫追捕路，他的目标正是玛歌特·罗比饰演的女劫匪。

　　摄影师丽莎突然失踪。最后的线索指向她拍摄过的七个足球场——它们散落在格鲁吉亚七个偏远村庄。父亲伊拉克利踏遍这些球场寻女，丽莎的挚友、如幽灵般的列瓦尼悄然加入搜寻。每当球场更迭，相遇的村民与他们的故事便如走马灯般轮转。看似荒诞的旅程里暗涌渐起：每踏过一片坑洼的草场，每穿过 一座寂静村庄，找到丽莎的希望便如晨雾般日渐稀薄。

　　迈尔斯（保罗•吉亚玛提 Paul Giamatti 饰）和杰克（托马斯•哈登•丘奇 Thomas Haden Church 饰）是老朋友了，看着杰克即将踏入婚姻殿堂，迈尔斯更加感叹起自己失败的生活：婚姻失败、作家梦遥不可及、干着无聊枯燥的职业、不再年轻的岁数。迈尔斯对葡萄酒的研究颇为深厚，于是两个人决定前往加州的葡萄酒生产基地狂欢一次，如果遇上一夜情当然是最好不过了。　　果然二人在酒香浓郁的加州遇上了女招待和她的亚裔朋友，迈尔斯和杰克的艳遇让两人都兴奋不已。然而接下来的事情却大扫兴致。他们的狂欢计划充满了障碍。

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