溪边春色

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

　　弘治七年，皇上在全国范围内大选妃子。来在同村的两位少女鸳鸯（黄婉君 饰）和朱朱（黄婉伶 饰）相助于危险的夜路，遂互称姐妹，共赴皇宫。　　对于少女们来说，如果成功当选皇妃，无论富贵贫贱都可飞上枝头当凤凰，自然竞争激烈，条件也很苛刻。不光自身条件要好，还要经过严格的培训与层层考试。但更加残酷其实是她们各自之间的勾心斗角、尔虞我诈。　　面对种种的困难与危险，鸳鸯与珠珠能否闯过难关？而面对这残酷的竞争，她们的友情是否会改变呢？

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