Uzak Ihtimal

I see only 2 reviews posted for this wonderful film. I'm an American from a suburb north of New York City. I am non-religious though raised Catholic, so it was interesting to me to see a close up shot of the prayer beads used in the Muslim service. The Rosary beads we used to pray when I was in church are very similar to the ones used by Muslims.

The movie itself is very low key & slow moving & shows how much we share in common as human beings trying to make through each day. The man-made barriers of religion are just an obstacle which only make life more difficult for us.

The universal message of loneliness and yearning for companionship is clearly the main storyline here. Nadir Saribacak as Musa, the Iman seeking love and Gorkem Yeltan as Clara, the Catholic neighbor are both excellent in their respective lead roles. They are very natural & the script is not over-written with meaningless dialog. The writers let the actor's faces tell most of the story.

I felt that the film was very realistic from beginning to end & I highly recommend it.

delicate. and nice. inspired music. good actors. and the absence of courage of director to build a real convincing story. because the basic sin of film is its fragility, the grace of a bashful exercise, the status of sketch though the possibilities and tools are numerous. it is a beautiful film but it could be a memorable one. because it opens so many doors without explore any room, because it remains a love story who use more the naive humor than the clash of cultures, because, after its end, you understand than it has not roots. an esthetically delight, it has all the resources to be more. Gorkem Yeltal remains only an ethereal shadow and Nadir Saribacak - victim of his cage- role . but it is far to be a bad movie. only, maybe a nice one.

one of the film who reminds the falling leaves. or the rain of the evening. beautiful. seductive. and so fragile. its basic virtue - the open manner to explore different aspects/themes of the Turkish society. the basic sin - absence of courage to go inside each of them. the director has need of a love story. and nothing more. he suggest. but ignore the opportunity to examine. a meet. and a passion. like in many others Turkish contemporary movies. it is one of the delightful stories who seduce, impress and reminds the force of love who ignores frontiers. but nothing new in this. and this does, after the end of credits, to preserve only the flavors of a spring morning.

I guess I have to express that I've been long waiting for this movie to come out with sole excitement but all I've been feeling since the end movie is soler disappointment.

The movie shows what a debut-movie maker should and shouldn't do (and he gets caught in traps almost all the debut-making movie makers have been falling in). This had to be a great movie. This had to be great because you got all the elements one need to make a splendid movie. You could dig further and further and explore what religion really is in its very core, its dilemma (both on society and person), the goods and bads of both religions and how they look at each other at what points and struggle the girl and man throughout all these complications.

But this movie offers non of these.

What this movie offers is unnecessary jokes in unnecessary scenes, a shallow love story and nothing deep. There isn't even any psychoanalytical resolutions both in the process and in the end! Besides all this, it isn't even making you feel the way the name of the movie expresses. You don't feel that "distance" it had to be between characters and situations.

Uzak Ihtimal (Wrong Rosary) is an accomplished debut for director Mahmut Fazil Coskun. It tells a simple story of Musa, a young Muslim muezzin (prayer caller) in a mosque falling in love with his neighbor Clara, a Christian girl doing voluntary work in a church. Musa's natural shyness, coupled with the invisible barriers due to their different religions, prevent Musa from expressing his true feelings to Clara.This simple story is delicately handled by Coskun and the script has enough twists and turns to keep the viewers attention throughout the film. Performances are fine and the camera work is another plus. Overall an assured and promising directional debut.