A Dark Coming of Age Story in a Single Plan: Adolescence (2025)

Type: Mini Series

Premiering on Netflix in early 2025, Adolescence is a four-part British mini-series that is not just a crime drama; it’s also a social critique exposing the dark side of growing up in the digital age. While exploring the story of a young boy confronted with crime, the show boldly delves into parenting, psychological trauma, and the new threats emerging in the era of the internet. Devamını Oku…

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…