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Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Metin Erksan's Time to Love (1965) is showing exclusively on Mubi starting November 3, 2022 in the series Rediscovered.Time to Love (1965).Growing up in İstanbul, it felt like there were islands everywhere. There were the geographical islands themselves: the Princes’ Islands that lie off the shore of the Anatolian coast, the largest of which is the major setting for Metin Erksan’s Time to Love (1965). There were the city’s neighborhoods with their various cultures, and sometimes even their favored languages. And then there were the more interesting ones, the invisible islands, those of stories half-remembered or almost completely forgotten, of the symbols and traditions they carry, looming like specters in a city that lies across not only two continents but a time frame of more than two thousand years.Time to Love threads a bold path through all these islands of culture,...