Loving Istanbul couple Ayşe and Cemal need only a child to complete their life together, but they cannot conceive. To salvage Cemal’s pride, they resort to illegal means to procure a baby. This wild grab at a more perfect life proves their undoing, leading the couple to spiral toward separate futures. The couple's estrangement is intertwined with the film’s parallel narrative, in which a distant and neglectful single mom is raising her little boy, Can.
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Such a frustrating disappointment
Best movie ever!
Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.
It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.
a man. a woman. a child. choices, expectations, decisions. and the eyes of young Yusuf Demirbag. a puzzle. like many others, with Turkish deep flavor, with fragile solutions. exploration of crisis. and melancholic air. a film in which tradition and pressure of duties are strong chain for each character. sentimental, not always credible, it desires be mirror of ordinary pieces of life. and the success is not really small but not powerful at end. expression of Oriental sensitivity, it is touching and nice. but not extraordinary like a food who has not an insignificant, at first sigh, spice. exploration of ordinaries people universe. and the wise answer of a child .
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