继母

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

　　两个蒙面人在街上绑架了一个女人并向其索要赎金，他们将她绑了起来并且堵住了她的嘴巴，但这个女人凭借自己有限的力量破坏了绑匪精心策划的计划。

　　一名男子打电话给孟买警方并告诉他们，他已经把5个不同的炸弹安置在城市之内，并已经设定在同一时间爆炸-他希望以此交换4名恐怖分子。他是否能换回他们？背后的黑手是谁？动机又是什么呢？是否不是表面上看起来那么简单呢？

 影片改编自科林·胡佛2022年出版的畅销小说，讲述一段关于母性、宽恕，以及爱的力量是如何修复最严重错误的动人旅程。在和男友有一次看似完美的约会之后，肯娜（麦卡·梦露 饰）犯下一个无法弥补的错误，使她被送进监狱。七年后，她回到怀俄明州的家乡，希望能够重新建立她的人生，并且争取与她从未见过的女儿蒂恩母女团圆的机会。当拥有蒂恩监护权的祖父母坚决拒绝让肯娜见她的女儿时，她却意外地在一位前美式足球球员以及当地酒吧老板的雷杰（泰里克·威瑟斯 饰）身上找到意想不到的同情心以及更真实和深切的情感。随着他们的秘密恋情逐渐发展，他们两个人也面对越来越多的危险，这把肯娜逼向心碎的边缘，然而，最终也让她有希望得到第二次机会。