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　　《玛德琳的玛德琳》是美国女导演约瑟芬·戴克最新的一部作品。这部电影讲述了一个戏剧导演，在创作她最近的作品时所产生的故事。这也是约瑟芬·戴克的第14部作品。作品中的角色和她本人颇为相似，同样作为导演的她，也是一名演员。戴克以往的作品，总是带着一定程度上的形式化的美感，也显露着女性特有的细腻。在她的作品中，镜头更像是一双可以无限接近角色人物的眼睛，时刻捕捉着主观视角下的人物的行动和当时的情内心状态。

　　故事围绕缉毒警察何光辰（郑楚一饰）追查“将军”贩毒集团展开。一群“鬼面”狂徒黑吃黑劫走毒品，而幕后主使竟是何光辰的警校挚友（邹兆龙饰），两人从并肩立誓到正邪对立，上演刺刀见红的生死博弈。剧情通过血腥动作场面和兄弟反目的人性挣扎，揭露黑恶势力真相，最终将罪恶绳之以法。

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

 故事发生在塞内加尔的大型建筑工地附近，晚上工人们与一名男子发生了冲突，男子的哥哥在工地因工伤丧生。