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.
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Whenever his plectrum strums the strings of his saz, folk bard Necdet is drifting into strange and wondrous cosmic realms. For years, he has been estranged from his son Metin, a psychedelic rock musician. One day, Shaman Ana — walking across centuries — suddenly appears, determined to reconcile them.
