芳邻

 本片本讲述的是：乔治·柯汉是本世纪前期著名的百老汇表演艺人，身兼演员、作家、作曲家与舞蹈家于一身，他的生平故事可以说反映了四十年代以前美国娱乐事业的生态。本片是导演迈克尔·柯蒂兹与编剧爱泼斯坦尼兄弟合作的另一佳片，描述柯汉从一个地位卑微的儿童演员力争上游变成百老汇巨星的一生。以出色的制作和歌舞场面重现当年的娱乐圈面貌，并侧面反映了当时的美国社会脉动。在三十年代以主演黑社会片享有盛誉的詹姆斯·卡格尼改变戏路，在银幕上又唱又跳，生动而细腻地注释了主人翁的形象和个性，因而勇夺奥斯卡最佳男主角金像奖，片中出色的歌舞表演亦令人看得眉飞色舞

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

　　故事发生在苏格兰一个名叫英维思的偏远宁静小镇。夜幕愈加浓重，年轻女警官瑞秋（Pollyanna McIntosh 饰）被闹钟唤醒，她有条不紊穿戴整齐，随后出门行走在空无一人的街道中央。在某个路口，瑞秋目击不远处站着一位老人，但随后老人被一辆飞驰而来的汽车撞到。瑞秋冲上前去，然而并未看到被撞之人，她只得将肇事者凯撒（布莱恩·沃纳 Brian Vernel 饰）扭送回警局，与麦克·瑞德警长（道格拉斯·罗素 Douglas Russell 饰）一同审问。稍后凯撒被关入牢房，而警局的同事也找到了那名神秘且一言不发的受伤老人。　　令人难以置信的是，老人似乎拥有直抵他人内心的能力，同时也让对方暴走疯狂，这注定是一个不平凡的夜晚……