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凯伦·吉兰、玛格丽特·苏菲·斯坦、杰梅因·福勒、凯文·尼伦、塔利亚·巴尔萨姆将主演喜剧新片《大器晚成》(Late Bloomers)，丽莎·斯蒂恩首导剧情长片，已在纽约杀青。                                                                      　　斯蒂恩的多部短片搭档安娜·格林菲尔德写剧本，松散基于她20多岁时居住在布鲁克林的经历，讲述露易丝(吉兰)是一个漫无目的的千禧一代，某天她醉醺醺地摔到了臀部，为此接受了物理治疗，在那里结识了一位不会说英语的年长波兰女士，两人成为了闺蜜。而正是这种不太可能的友谊让露易丝有勇气面对她一直在逃避的事情：她母亲的早发性老年痴呆症。                                                                      　　福勒饰演露易丝的室友/房东布里克，尼伦和巴尔萨姆饰演露易丝的父母。

小说作家阿贞与拳王父亲从小存在隔阂，父亲离世后，她通过格斗竞技探寻真相，逐渐理解父亲并完成自我蜕变。影片围绕父爱与亲情展开，男主角虽格斗天资一般，仍不懈追寻梦想。剧情融合文与武转换、善与恶抉择，最终阿贞为父正名，成为真正的格斗家 。

　　Chosen Family sees Ann, a yoga teacher trying to find inner peace despite the fact her family is manic, and whose dating life is miserable. Ann doesn’t know how to say no and finds herself fixing everyone’s problems. Struggling to repair her estranged relationship with her sister Clio, Ann relies on her friends Roz, Max and Frances to be her rock and guide her through life’s troubling decisions.

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