Traditions or Loved Ones?: A Regular Woman (2019)

Some of you may remember the incident or have seen it in the media. Aynur, a young woman shot by her brother in the street. Aynur’s story meets the audience in 2009 with the title “An Ordinary Woman”. The movie is a great work that tells Aynur’s story in a documentary style with real images in some places. Director Sherry Hormann shows the audience her journey of finding herself step by step with a grave death. Devamını Oku…

A Tale of the Unbearable Lightness of Suffering from the “Greek Weird Wave”: Oiktos / Pity / Zavallı (2018)

It is as if a question was asked and then a film was made to answer that question. And what is that question?

How can a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy be happy?

Released in 2018, the film Oiktos is the story of addiction to pain. I will briefly tell you about the film and try to write about what it made me feel and the emergence of oiktos.

In April 2023, I was looking at the new arrivals on Mubi and I saw it; OiktosDevamını Oku…

God-Given Ugliness: Kıskanmak (2009)

Released on November 6, 2009, the movie Kıskanmak (Jealousy) takes place in Zonguldak in the 1930s. I can list the names in the cast of the movie for you as follows;

Berrak Tüzünataç as Mükerrem, Nergis Öztürk as Seniye, Bora Cengiz as Nüzhet, Serhat Tutumluer as Halit and many more great actors whose names I cannot write here. The cast of the movie is really good. Devamını Oku…

God-Given Ugliness: Envy (Kıskanmak) (2009)

The movie Envy (Kıskanmak) , which was released to the audience on November 6, 2009, takes place in Zonguldak in the 1930s. I can list the names in the cast of the film for you as follows;

Berrak Tüzünataç with the character of Mükerrem, Nergis Öztürk with the character of Seniye, Bora Cengiz with the character of Nüzhet, Serhat Tutumluer with the character of Halit and many more great actors whose names I cannot write here. The cast of the film is really good. Devamını Oku…

Drowning in a Sea of Clichés: Dragon Trap (Ejder Kapanı) (2010)

Sometimes you don’t know almost any actor in a film, but you watch that film because there is only one actor, or you don’t know an actor, but you watch and follow the director who made the film.Our favourite actors and directors have always had a special place in our lives. When I saw the first poster, my heart started beating faster with excitement, and when I read the names of the actors in order, I even felt a Mexican Wave inside me. I mentioned at the beginning, sometimes you watch a film for an actor or director. Imagine; if those actors and the director meet in the same place, can there be a bigger excitement for a film lover? Who wasn’t on that poster? Devamını Oku…