Kelebegin Rüyasi

"All we know is to keep our record, The rest is the will of the Lord"

One of the best film I've ever seen. Every bit of it has been nourished by its artists through their performances. The story as well as the music used in the film has become its beauty. Audience will witness survival of two unknown poets who fights for their fortune and love against TB.

The cast is very good and their performance is so extraordinary that makes the story more touchy. This movie has successfully introduced those two poets and their sad story to the world.

In the poetic view, this movie included a number of beautiful poems. Every one of those is spectacular. One of those has been given earlier.

2,5 hours... Wish the movie was even longer, wish I had the chance to walk into that screen and live in that movie together.

Visually it did remind me of Gladiator due to amazing scenery and La vita e Bella due to colors and era. But as a whole it was something else, something touching, heart breaking and still full of humor. If I need to explain it with one word, it was poetic in each and every moment.

Life of 3 poets. One very well known and experienced and two young and talented. A friendship that is bond with life and death. It should be really hard to capture it all but Yilmaz Erdogan did a great job as a director and actor. Two young poets, Kivanc Tatlitug and Mert Firat just makes you feel each and every moment of their life, their pain and their happiness so perfectly.

I plan to see it again at the theater and keep telling the people that it deserves a chance at the film festivals around the world.

You must definitely see this movie if you want to get lost among the beautiful scenes and poetry of course.

Without hesitating I can say that this is the best movie of Yılmaz Erdoğan. Art for Man's sake. I was very impressed by the movie.

I also would like to congratulate Director of Photography and Art Director. They did an outstanding job. Mert Fırat and Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ in the roles of two poets who died at early ages, performed very well. Friendship of these poets whose only concern is writing poets, is above everything. They spend most of their time together, try to get their poets published, like the same girl, go to the same sanatorium because of the same disease - TB.

Throughout the movie, poet is always in the middle of everything.

I remembered I missed poetry so much. After all, love is the pretext for poetry.

Since the movie based on a real story, it will probably remain as a source for Turkish Literature. The film pays a tribute to forgotten poets from the past.

"The Butterfly's Dream" title based on a story told by Muzaffer character in the movie: "One day, A mystic dreamed he was a butterfly. He woke up all confused. Did he dream he was a butterfly or was a butterfly dreaming that it was him?"

With a divine meaning of this story, one can understand that the stories in the movie have roots from the Turkish mysticism.

Film director, actor and also poet, Yilmaz Erdogan, wrote, starred and directed this mournful drama with Hollywood film stereotypes in mind, and that was the main issue, asphyxiating the aspirations of a decent plot, which presented sufficient arguments to be a triumph.

Impoverished but spirited poets, Muzaffer and Rustu, enjoying life, friendship and love, searching for recognition, and fighting against tuberculosis in 1940's Turkey. Both poets, who had the poet Behçet Necatigil (performed by Erdogan) as friend and mentor, will end up finding the love of their lives, until their short happiness be interrupted by sickness and a couple of painful goodbyes.

Some quotes in the movie:

" - A typewriter, Muzaffer. We need a typewriter.

• I can't steal another. It's your turn."

"Every unpublished poet wants to publish a poem magazine."

"I am without patience, You without loyalty"

"First he wants everyone to be German, then he says nobody can exactly be" (About Hitler after listening to his speech on the radio)

"Love is an excuse for poetry."

poetic, touching, admirable work, Turkish at all for each detail, for music and for the emotion after its end. a film about poetry, love, life made in a special manner. the flavors, the decisions, the frame of soap opera and the scent of old films, the traces of tradition and the delicate story are mixed in a wise science of essence exploration. it is one of necessaries proofs about the art of Kivanc Tatlitug who is more than a cute guy and ideal choice for soap operas but, in same measure, for the art of Yimalz Erdogan. sentimental in deep measure, it is one of beautiful occasions to discover the roots and the force of a cultural space. and that fact is basis for the feeling to be front to a personal experience more than a film. because each piece seems be so real and the case of two young Turkish poets has the virtue to be universal.