美人图

　　2001年11月，阿富汗加兹尼省。一支来自美国的特种部队小分队与CIA探员本杰明·凯恩斯（乔纳斯·鲍尔 Jonas Ball 饰）在此碰头，他们要在当地寻找一个名叫莫罕默德•阿班的男人。在线人阿布尔（Chems-Eddine Zinoune 饰）的引导下，他们来到据说莫罕默德藏身的山区。这里流传着恐怖的传说，在半个多世纪前英国就曾有一支上万人的部队在此地凭空消失。从特种队员踏入这片陌生领域的那一刻起，恐怖离奇的事件便如影随形。队员们接连失踪，他们仿佛走入一条通往黑暗世界的不归之路……　　本片荣获2008年纽约恐怖电影节观众奖最佳摄影奖、2008年墨西哥圣塔菲电影节Milagro奖最佳摄影奖。

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

 一九五四年十月一日，以法属阿尔及利亚首都阿尔及尔的卡斯巴为中心，爆发了阿尔及利亚人反抗运动，这是由于阿拉伯人憎恨法国人长期统治而引起的。人们四处搞破坏，法国政府发觉事态严重，便于一九五七年十月七日，派马丘将军率领四十万大军驻于斯拉姆地区。但是暴乱仍层出不穷，法国人的镇压行动开始升级。