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Directed by:
Muzaffer ÖzdemirScreenplay:
Muzaffer ÖzdemirCinematography:
Ilker BerkeCast:
Kanbolat Görkem Arslan, Muzaffer Özdemir, Muhammet Uzuner, Saygın Soysal, Pınar Ünsal, Mehmet Tuna, Halil KılıçPlots(1)
Upon his doctor's advice, an architect named Doğan, who suffers from neurosis and personal crises, leaves the busy city and returns to the place of his childhood. During his stay, he gradually realizes that the homeland, as he remembers it, is disappearing for good; being it the landscape itself or the social customs of the locals. The bitter, yet poetic, description of today's Turkey illustrates the hectic development of the society with all the pros and cons that accompany these changes. The first-time director, Muzaffer Özdemir, is known primarily from Nuri Bilge Ceylan's films. (Febiofest)
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Özdemir is a demon as an actor, a regrettable person as a director, who tries in vain to evoke a mystical Turkish drama, which is reserved for masters of rigid image and passing time (Ceylan, Kaplanoglu, Pirsemoglu). This biographical film about capitalism-conditioned Anatolia would work better as a documentary. The quest for psychological monologues and melancholic natural lyrics does not work because the screenplay is incredibly clumsy and because the film struggles a lot with amateur camera work despite its beautiful decor. Activism in this package made me laugh in Turkish: the protagonist gurgling at the state of the landscape, but he is transported up hills by truck, and a director cursing capitalism, and yet documentary information about the destruction of traditional Anatolia is ostentatiously played by the protagonist on a new MacBook... it has a certain comic potential, I think.
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