STL International Film Festival: Times and Winds (Bes Vakit)

What a Movie!

Whole movie was filmed in a small town, with a population around 100 people. Very very slow movie. Did I like it? No, I did not like it. Why not, here we go:

I believe this film is both banal, and miraculous, as the endlessly repeating metamorphoses that it portrays. Here, time does not so much heal old wounds as reopen them in new bodies – and the result is a vision that sets human progress against eternal return.

Movie music: Very disturbing and unsuccesful movie music... why not to have some turkish music or not using turkish sounds.

Subject of the movie:... I don't know.. if you understood what it was, please let me know.

Scenes: Spectacular scenery in the movie. Makes you want to go to Turkey on a holiday or just to live.

St.Louis Int'l Film Fest: Times and Winds (Bes vakit)

Reha Erdem, Turkey, 2006, 107 min., Turkish
Saturday, Nov. 15, 2:30 p.m., Frontenac

The intensely lyrical “Times and Winds” depicts the bumpy emotional lives of three preteen friends – Omer, Yakup and Yaldiz – and the ways their families curb their dreams and desires. Omer, the imam’s son, harbors fantasies about killing his father, who favors his younger brother. Yakup turns against his own father when he discovers his dad has been spying on the beautiful schoolteacher with whom he’s infatuated. And Yaldiz is troubled by a budding sexuality after she witnesses her parents making love. This magical film – which Britain’s Telegraph says “deserves consideration for entry into the pantheon of great films about rural communities” – reveals the tensions that lie beneath the seemingly placid surface of a remote, beautiful and rugged mountain village untouched by the modern world.