Advantages: incredible performances, strong characters you care about (even despite yourself) Disadvantages: relentless in the bad things that happen, subtitles sometimes sketchy
Director Fatih Akin, a Turk born and brought up in Germany, won a shelf-ful of prizes for this film, including the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival 2004. As a film, it will leave you emotionally wrung out, and portrays both the intense highs and the deep lows that come of falling to pieces, and how it feels to have no sense of belonging: two people who want to live but can't quite work out how, and how they could find out who they are together, ... ...alone.
"What's the story?"
It might seem the film it has reached its low point right at the beginning, when Cahit (Birol Unel), a 40-odd year old Turk living in Germany, drives his car into a wall in an alcohol-fuelled suicide attempt. Recovering in the psychatric ward, he meets Sibel (Sibel Kekilli), who keeps staging attention-seeking suicide attempts in just-out-of-teenage acts of defiance against her overbearing traditional (also Turkish) family. ...
natalka57 04.09.2006
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