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Unfortunately this is a bad film, and there's no euphemism to hide this fact. Its writing is poor; the characters are one-dimensional, and there is no subtlety. The key conflict also feels forced, both the inception and the resolution of it. The acting is noticeably amateurish to the point of irritating the viewer. Overall feels like a movie made for a term project in a film class.

Not sure what Okan Yalabik is doing in it.

This is a film that's hard to review; it is technically well done, but once in a while you wonder why you are watching what you're watching.

The film offers many ingredients of a good coming-of-age story: realistic characters, realistic character developments, realistic scenarios, realistic dialogues. Its perspective is not moralistic; It neither blames nor encourages any of its characters' different approaches to sex and life.

The problem, however, is that if you cut one hour of the movie out, it wouldn't lose any significance. Indeed, a lot of the film is plain gazing at the plump bodies of women, but the thing is that the gazed body parts do not add anything to the film. One could argue that the long sex scene in La Vie d'Adele gave the viewer an opportunity to get acquainted with the characters since the way a person has sex also tells a lot about them. The same argument sadly cannot be given in this film. Hence, you have a three hour long movie instead of two. Nonetheless, the longevity of the film does not mean that the film is stretched out. Three hours pass by in a relatively quick fashion (especially if you like women).

I just hope women and the animals in the movie did not have to endure shootings that they didn't particularly enjoy, considering Léa Seydoux's and Adele Exarchopoulos's harsh comments on the director at the time.

A problem with this, or any, mythical adaptation in the form of a suspense thriller is that said adaptations cannot claim to be realistic in the sense that the audience can empathize with the characters. Once you bring in superpowers or magic of some sort, you break the internal realism and consistency of the movie, and the suspense disappears. This was the problem with the script, I feel.

If it was possible that Martin had done what he did with the aid of some ancient, unrecorded poisonous substance (or some other even remotely believable device, it would have been a great mystery. The movie didn't even have to explain what Martin did, but it had to show the possibility that Martin was just another sociopath.

Overall, great directing, cinematography, and score, but the script fails.