Melegin düsüsü (2005)
Angel's Fall (2005)
DVDRip | AVI | 720 x 400 | XviD @ 1714 Kbps | 92 min | 1,44 Gb
Audio: Turkish AC3 5.1 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English, Bulgarian, French,
Italian, Persian, Portuguese-BR, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
Genre: Drama
DVDRip | AVI | 720 x 400 | XviD @ 1714 Kbps | 92 min | 1,44 Gb
Audio: Turkish AC3 5.1 @ 384 Kbps | Subs: English, Bulgarian, French,
Italian, Persian, Portuguese-BR, Russian, Spanish, Turkish
Genre: Drama
Zeynep works in a hotel as a housekeeper. But she suffers hell on earth because of her father's behavior. She only talks to Mustafa, who works in the same hotel and he is interested in Zeynep. She is not interested in Mustafa who is younger than Zeynep, but she is not indifferent to him. While Zeynep is trying to make a bonfire of bad situation, Selçuk, who lives on the other side of city is a voice technician. He feels guilty after his wife's death. The suitcase which has his wife's dresses changes the Zeynep's destiny.
In "Melegin dususu" Semih Kaplanoglu hasn't yet moved from metropolis to province of his masterful "Yusuf Trilogy" - yet there is much to be appreciated in this small portrait of a girl wandering around in men's world. A simple, moving story was crumbled by the director, then carefully chosen snippets were picked up, carefully lit + shot, and reassembled partly in a non-chronological way. The final form resembles a palimpsest being read at random, with endless and endlessly seductive static shots glowing on a dark surface, just as in some of the images, Rembrandt-like, the (pieces of) bodies are cut out by light - or eclipsed. Great visuals, indeed. (There were moments when the mediocre transfer appeared to make them even more magical.) Could this be called magical-realistic minimalism ? Does the folkloristic detail in the prologue (for more, see "The Red Right Hand" external review !) have the symbolic meaning of Ariadne's thread ? Or rather of Sisyphus' boulder? Isn't this prologue actually an epilogue? The only thing that I'm sure of is that I consider Kaplanoglu the greatest of a couple of Turkish directors whose work I've come across.IMDB Reviewer
Melegin düsüsü (2005)
