姐妹病毒

1916年，第一次世界大战在西线激烈进行，约克郡拉姆斯登的合唱协会失去了大部分男性成员，他们都应征入伍了。雄心勃勃的委员会决心继续前行，决定招募本地的年轻男性来填补队伍空缺。同时，他们还必须聘请一位新的合唱指挥，最有希望的人选是亨利·格思里博士（拉尔夫·费因斯 饰）——一个意志坚定、毫不妥协、刚从德国音乐生涯归来的男人。随着征兵通知陆续送达，全社区的人逐渐意识到，在战争摧毁一切的混乱中，最有力的回应就是：一起奏响音乐。

　　

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

　　小松左京の同名SF小説を原作に、超能力を持つ諜報員・エスパイたちの活躍を描く。当時の技術で、果敢に超能力を表現しようとする試みが光る。田村、マリア、三木の3人は、国連の秘密組織’“エスパイ”で働いていた。エスパイとは、超能力を悪用する逆エスパイと戦うための超能力者を養成する機関である。やがて、東西冷戦の要・バルトニアの首相暗殺計画をめぐって3人の活躍が始まる……。