Director:
Yesim Ustaoglu
Screenplay:
Yesim Ustaoglu, Selma Kaygusuz
Photography: Jacques Besse
Cast:
Tsilla Chelton, Derya Alabora, Onur Unsal, Övül Avkiran, Osamn Sonant
This touching and very modern film tells the story of an estranged family – two sisters, Nesrin and Guzin, and a brother, Mehmet – who live their comfortable, preoccupied lives in Istanbul. When the siblings find out that their elderly mother Nusret has gone missing, they return to their small coastal hometown to find her. As the group journeys through the countryside, they realize that they are strangers in their own land – as ignorant to the ancient Turkish countryside as they are to each other. Most of all, however, they have become alienated from themselves, their dreams distracted by prejudice, nihilism and lazy concessions to the status quo. What starts out as a begrudging trip to find their mother turns into a voyage of self-discovery for the threesome, a poetic reordering of their psyches as the reality of the world around them is reflected back onto themselves.
Pandora's Box
Pandoranin Kutusu
N7
Genre
Drama
Run time
1h 52min
Genre
Drama
Run time
1h 52min
Director:
Yesim Ustaoglu
Screenplay: Yesim Ustaoglu, Selma Kaygusuz
Photography: Jacques Besse
Cast: Tsilla Chelton, Derya Alabora, Onur Unsal, Övül Avkiran, Osamn Sonant
This touching and very modern film tells the story of an estranged family – two sisters, Nesrin and Guzin, and a brother, Mehmet – who live their comfortable, preoccupied lives in Istanbul. When the siblings find out that their elderly mother Nusret has gone missing, they return to their small coastal hometown to find her. As the group journeys through the countryside, they realize that they are strangers in their own land – as ignorant to the ancient Turkish countryside as they are to each other. Most of all, however, they have become alienated from themselves, their dreams distracted by prejudice, nihilism and lazy concessions to the status quo. What starts out as a begrudging trip to find their mother turns into a voyage of self-discovery for the threesome, a poetic reordering of their psyches as the reality of the world around them is reflected back onto themselves.
Screenplay: Yesim Ustaoglu, Selma Kaygusuz
Photography: Jacques Besse
Cast: Tsilla Chelton, Derya Alabora, Onur Unsal, Övül Avkiran, Osamn Sonant
This touching and very modern film tells the story of an estranged family – two sisters, Nesrin and Guzin, and a brother, Mehmet – who live their comfortable, preoccupied lives in Istanbul. When the siblings find out that their elderly mother Nusret has gone missing, they return to their small coastal hometown to find her. As the group journeys through the countryside, they realize that they are strangers in their own land – as ignorant to the ancient Turkish countryside as they are to each other. Most of all, however, they have become alienated from themselves, their dreams distracted by prejudice, nihilism and lazy concessions to the status quo. What starts out as a begrudging trip to find their mother turns into a voyage of self-discovery for the threesome, a poetic reordering of their psyches as the reality of the world around them is reflected back onto themselves.