Kiz Kardesler

Actualy this film so sincerity but the story was like a ''Channel 7''s television movie shot... with high budget and perfect actors.

Good cinematography, good actors, a story that's a bit short on originality, but since the actors as I said are good, with Kayhan Acikgoz as Veysel and Ece Yuksel as Nurhan topping the cast, but not by much. And the good actors carry you through the story, even if it's a story I've seen many times before.

Don't get me wrong, it's an important story, the story of how hard it is to really get away from your village, from the place where you were born. Or in other words, as I said in the title, how your village refuses to leave you, even when you did get away. A story about how your place of origin is more than just a social background. I do wish it was more original, but even as is it's a good movie.

One more point I wish to make: this story is being told in a very theatrical style. Using the actual setting of the village and the harsh nature around as a stage, and maintaining strict loyality to the theatrical unities of time and place. But this is a very cinematic theater, and that's the way theater should look like in cinema.

This wonderful story is told with such intensity and subtlety, that resembles the craft of Arthur Miller. With its twists and turns, the story unfolds such that one cannot grasp its complexity all at once. Alper depicts the multidimensionality of culture in a very neutral, unjudgemental way. His characters surrender to norms or fight against them, but nonetheless are captured like butterflies in a jar, relentlessly aiming at an escape through the glass walls, towards the world.

A sad tale, a society where people are subjugated all the time, women subjected to masculine decisions, young people considered incapable, the harbinger of a tragedy, there is no one just good or bad, but acting in accordance with a prejudiced, rooted culture sexist and hierarchist, lovely photography, despite suffering, very good to rejoice in such an adverse culture, its peculiarities, simplicity, rustic and rude... Filled with symbolism, the scorpion, the woman of somersaults, the cold and the stone houses. ..

A great Emin Alper movie. I wish I could see the world like Emin Alper. I think he is the only filmmaker I want to meet in Turkish cinema. To praise a movie, you can say "Like Emin Alper's work"