Belonging
Aidiyet
2019, Film, 73 min, Crime, Drama, Romance, Turkish, 0, MoviePedia score 62
A murder investigation is flipped inside out in Burak Çevik's second feature, a spellbinding and surprising work that questions whether we can ever truly understand criminal motives. We begin in the present as an unseen narrator recounts the assassination of his lover's disapproving mother, accompanied by hauntingly vacant images of urban alienation and garish city lights; we then flash back to witness the first encounter between the lovers-turned-accomplices, their mutual attraction and world-weariness emerging across a sleepless night and morning after. Çevik imbues the proceedings with a stylistic confidence and willingness to bend the conventions of cinematic form to arrive at a complex, gripping double meditation on love and death.
Directed by Burak Çevik
Cast
- Eylül Su Sapan as Pelin
- Çaglar Yalçinkaya as Onur
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