A comical triptych about residents in an apartment block district who long for a better life. When a black hole mysteriously appears in a lilac bush, they will have to face aliens, a giant spider, and an Austrian in breeches.
The teaser unfolds in what’s described as “hauntingly atmospheric backwaters,” offering glimpses of a narrative that oscillates between romance and pulse-pounding suspense. The film is positioned as an adrenaline-charged experience that seamlessly blends love, primal terror, and survival.
以《妖兽都市》、《兽兵卫忍风帖》 和《吸血鬼猎人D》闻名于世的日本动画导演川尻善昭的新作《Highlander: The Search for Vengeance》在制作了近2年之后终于要和观众见面了,但与之前宣告的作为剧场放映的电影不同,这部80多分钟长的动画片将于6月5日直接在美国发行DVD,分为普通版和特别版。3月14日该动画的官方网站放出了1分半的新预告片,从华丽的画面看仍然保持了川尻一贯的凌厉风格。
该系列影片的第5部《Highlander: The Source》也将于今年9月由狮门影业在北美发行。而率先于6月问世的这部动画版则是《Highlander》系列的制作人联手日本动画大师的一次崭新尝试。这部动画由与川尻善昭保持长期合作关系的日本MADHOUSE动画公司和专门发行日本动画的美国MANGA公司联合出品,香港意马动画公司(该公司也参与制作了即将上映的3D动画《少年忍者龟》)参与制作。采用和《吸血鬼猎人D》一样先在美国发行英语配音版、稍后在日本再推出日语配音版的做法,但不知道在日本是否会做剧场放映。
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