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　　跨国投资银行香港高层约翰收到勒索电邮，如不按指示三日内交出约十九万港币，有关台湾科网龙头公司之机密融资分析就会被公开。为了公司声誉，也为免客户股价大幅波动，约翰暗中找来昔日大学舍堂堂友兼刑警唐辅协助调查。　　机密融资分析由约翰四位下属负责，其中牧野一度失踪，嫌疑极大。发现档案在内联网被偷之小儒，因曾向电脑部职员阿植求救，结果整个团队连阿植六人，都被约翰安排到附近一间贵宾公寓套房，接受唐辅以至其手下全天候监视，直至完成赎金交易。　　由于赎金奇少，绑匪显然志不在钱，其多个古怪指示更令人困惑。当阿植协助追踪绑匪电邮源头时，竟发现电邮是由公司伺服器发出，换言之绑匪必有内应。其后电邮证实来自阿植手机，纵然他在早上已遗失手机，而最后是小儒接触他手机，阿植依然百词莫辨。　　唐辅发现阿植家庭背景殊不简单，疑似内应之神秘人又频频现身，加上科网公司原来曾有高层因新一代网上平台开发延误而被迫离职，甚至行踪成疑，这一切都有关连吗？　　由开发延误导致融资失败，由此可能触发新一轮全球股灾，到最后绑匪竟要求用约翰用网上拍卖缴交赎款，究竟唐辅这一代会明白新一代的上网心态吗？不了解又能否替约翰低调破案？阿植又可会知道谁是真凶？以至真凶为何要陷害他吗？　　绑匪背后真正动机又是什麽？

 一颗陨石撞击苏格兰偏远森林，意外唤醒了自尼安德特人时代就蛰伏地底、以骨骼为食的远古克苏鲁式怪兽 “守骨异兽”。1976 年，调查者詹姆斯・惠勒深入洞穴后离奇失踪，仅留下一张怪兽剪影的 8mm 胶片。数十年后，他的孙女奥利维亚为寻找同样失踪的母亲，带领一群好友与怪兽专家哈里斯教授，深入洞穴系统调查连环失踪案，却不知自己正被这只地底生物步步猎杀，陷入绝境求生的猎杀游戏。

　　德高望重的亚历山大（让·雷诺 Jean Reno 饰）多年来一直是米其林餐厅的三星主厨，但是近来他的境遇却屡现危机。当下的法国料理界正是”分子料理”风靡，传统料理日渐衰落的时代，亚历山大所坚持的传统料理很有可能会在即将到来的星级评审中落败，餐厅的小开更是翘首以盼可以就此炒了他。正当亚历山大焦头烂额之时，一名名不见经传的小厨师杰克（迈克尔·扬 Michaël Youn 饰）出现了，杰克是亚历山大食谱的忠实追随者，却因对料理的狂热固执屡次失业，只好在养老院找了份油漆工作。一个偶然的机会，亚历山大让杰克到他的餐厅实习，杰克与生俱来的料理天分和另辟蹊径的烹调创意令亚历山大大为赏识，很快成为其左右手。星级评审越来越近，两位传统烹饪大师的合作能否在挑剔的”分子料理”派面前力挽狂澜呢？

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