Kiz Kardesler

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 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"

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. ..

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

Watching this movie in theatre was a rare experience that I've got such tremendous artistic pleasure for a long while. Emin Alper gifts a masterpiece to his audience with this movie; congatulations!!!

After "Tepenin Ardi" and "Abluka", we witness a new, original film grammar and a peculiar cinematographical point of view by Emin Alper. (I loved those first two movies, as well; I only emphasize the cinematic-stylistic differences between the works) Unlike his first movies, Alper tells no direct-political word in order to signify tender links among the story, actuality and socio-political formations of individuals.

On the contrary, the director masterfully pictures everyday life in a (unidentified) rural region in Turkey and he, for political context of the movie, trusts to the fact that true narration and ordinary details of everyday life naturally presents a stronge and rational political view.

The magnificence of this movie underlies the balanced combination of;

aesthetic composition of visual narration which plays a leading role rather than just supporting the speeches,

avoiding agitative language and redundant action scenes while keeping the tension across the story,

charming and very succesfull acting performances (though every player performs on upper levels, as a very personal admiration; I tremendously loved the shepherd Veysel and middle sister Nurhan),

balanced presentation of psychological motivations and surrounding material conditions, etc...

The movie, within a single and usual story, touches women's problems, restricted opportunities of provincial life and invisible social class links determining the vectors of all kind of human relations.

And finally, I think that the director achieves to form a cinematic langue beyond boundaries basing on a very local story.

Absolutely, all cinema lovers should see.