美人妻白书 美人妻白書 隣の芝は (2014)

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

 改编自赛珍珠的普立兹奖小说，是好莱坞在三十年代开始注意东方题材的代表性作品。影片虽是描写中国农村夫妇的悲剧故事，但主角均由美国人扮演，导演悉尼．弗兰克林也采取西方古典电影的风格来处理，在制作上相当严谨认真。剧情描写保罗．茂尼与路易丝．莱娜本来是贫困的农民，面对饥荒的威胁甚至以烤土充饥。后来茂尼得到了一笔财富，竟整天花天酒地迷恋情妇，莱娜只有发挥贤妻的耐性期待丈夫浪子回头。今天看来类似故事已显得老套，但本片的拍摄与特技表现杰出，路易丝．莱娜亦获得奥斯卡最佳女主角奖。

 法国青年克里斯（Fabian Wolfrom 饰），在他11岁时某个夜晚，哈雷彗星接近地球。似乎冥冥中有所感应，他的父母在当晚死于非命。此去经年，哈雷彗星再度接近地球，全世界人民寄予极大关注，各种或科学或玄学的猜测层出不穷，热议纷纷。对克里斯来说这颗星体的造访似乎没有什么特别的，但是他却发现周围人们的举止愈加怪异，人们越来越无法控制自己的情绪，各种暴力和暴动此起彼伏，在所谓的末日为降临前，众生已经陷入绝望的疯狂之中。彗星莅临当晚，克里斯受邀参加一个狂欢派对。谁知未过多久场面便完全失控，各种嗜血恶徒出笼，展开末日杀戮……

　　底层捕快薛不疑（刘峰超 饰）因不谙世故遭同僚排挤，憋屈十年。一桩赈灾银盗窃案他沦为替罪羊。绝境中，他受老师黄士宁（淳于珊珊 饰）搭救，与师弟李震（袁福福 饰）再度合作，然而钱外有钱官外有官，他被迫成为高官手中的“犬牙”……在这黑暗世道，他是会选择做一只听话的鹰犬，还是挣脱这巨 手成为啄天之鹰？