Movie Review:
The bosphorus, the pink coloured houses, the call to prayer, along skyscrapers, lighting fixtures inside the night time, the relentless noise of drilling as a brand new contemporary town is built. We see and especially hear istanbul inside the new movie – the 11th – with the aid of ferzan ozpetek. It’s been almost two decades for the reason that turkish-italian director has filmed in his native land, seeing that his first movies, il bagno turco and harem suare. With rosso istanbul [+] he takes us on a personal journey toward his personal roots, immersing us into recollections from his youngsters that live on in the sad and bewildered gaze of orhan, the protagonist of the tale and regulate ego of ozpotek, in a film that takes the autobiographical ebook of the same call that it’s based totally on (published in 2013 via mondadori) and enriches it with characters, thriller and plot twists that almost make it a mystery.
Shot in turkish with a solid of turkish actors who are very well-known in turkey, the movie tells the tale of orhan (halit ergenc), an editor who, having moved to london, returns to istanbul 20 years later to assist deniz (nejat isler), a movie director, to complete the draft for his first e book. After the primary element, in which deniz introduces orhan to his lifestyles, his evocative conventional residence on the banks of the bosphorus, his circle of relatives (mom, brother and aunts), his colleagues and buddies – all characters we discover in his e book, mainly the stunning neval, performed by using tuba buyukustun – and after an alcohol-fuelled evening at a celebration among writers in a luxurious condo at the pinnacle of a skyscraper that looms over the town, the movie shifts awareness. Deniz disappears mysteriously, and orhan is forced to remain in istanbul longer than firstly deliberate: his enterprise ride is for that reason converted into an possibility for him to face as much as his past and his ghosts.
Sophisticated, sorrowful and enigmatic, rosso istanbul is one of the least instantaneous and “famous” movies via the director, who we left three years in the past with fasten your seatbelts [+], an severe melodrama which become more conventional and tasty. This movie is a completely personal piece: “there are plenty of things in it from my lifestyles, from my formative years and my beyond”, admits ozpetek, who hasn’t lived in turkey for 41 years, “but it’s no longer a easy workout in nostalgia. I desired to try to carry the atmosphere of istanbul, a suspended metropolis which is changing rapidly, and painting human beings and moods that possibly won’t be round for much longer”. While the plot leaves us feeling unhappy (something came about to deniz?) and at times a bit floored (for instance with what occurs to deniz’s lover jusuf, played by means of mehmet gunsur), the pictures and sounds of a contradictory and pained metropolis stay with us, one which is modern-day yet unfashionable, charming yet stressed, the citizens of which see themselves reflected in its sea, undertaking it and emerge to rediscover its heart.
Rosso istanbul is an italian-turkish co-production among r&c produzioni (tilde corsi and gianni romoli), faros film and rai cinema with bkm-imaj. The film could be released in italian theatres on 2 march through 01 in two hundred copies, and on 3 march in turkey.
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