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Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
Strand Releasing

Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 73 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.5 out of 10
based on 18 reviews
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Alexander Hacke, Baba Zula, Orient Expressions, Duman, Replikas, Erkin Koray, Ceza, and Istanbul Style Breakers

A European musician and composer sets out to capture the musical diversity of Istanbul. (Strand Releasing)


GENRE(S): Documentary  |  Foreign  |  Musical  
WRITTEN BY: Fatih Akin  
DIRECTED BY: Fatih Akin  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: September 19, 2006 
Theatrical: June 9, 2006 
RUNNING TIME: 90 minutes, B/W / Color 
ORIGIN: Germany / Turkey 
LANGUAGE(S): English / German / Turkish 

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88
Premiere Glenn Kenny
But after surveying pop and rock hybrids, Akin and Hacke go deeper. You will be very happy indeed to make the acquaintance of such Turkish music luminaries as Orhan Gencebay and Sezen Aksu, whose stories and personalities are as fascinating as their music.
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88
TV Guide Ken Fox
You'll feel lucky for such a comprehensive introduction to Turkish music.
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80
Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
Whatever you think you know about Turkey, Crossing the Bridge will change your mind. With a dynamite album of music from the film in simultaneous release, I smell a "Buena Vista"-style crossover hit.
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80
The New York Times Manohla Dargis
This new film feels like something of a gift, as if the director had decided to burn some of his favorite songs for his newfound friends, the world-cinema audience.
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80
LA Weekly Ella Taylor
This sensational documentary, which follows German avant-garde musician Alexander Hacke around the city with his mobile recording studio, crosses all kinds of bridges.
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80
Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Crossing the Bridge does more than offer a wide variety of entertaining and intoxicating Turkish music. It also uses music to paint a portrait of a vibrant, cosmopolitan city and provide a window into a rich and varied national culture.
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75
San Francisco Chronicle Jonathan Curiel
Has two main flaws: the emphasis it puts on German bassist Alexander Hacke, the film's ostensible narrator, who shows up in too many scenes, and the fact that it doesn't identify many of the film's performers until the very end. Even so, Crossing the Bridge is satisfying to watch.
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75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White
With adventurous forays into questionable neighborhoods and stimulating tours through street markets, "Crossing the Bridge" is about the city as much as its music.
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75
New York Post V.A. Musetto
More than just a musical primer. It's also a valentine to the city on the Bosporus, the strait that separates Istanbul's Asian and European sides.
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75
New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
It's hard to imagine what Akin left unexplored - but here's hoping he'll share his discoveries if he ever returns.
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75
The Onion (A.V. Club) Noel Murray
Hacke is in almost every shot, taking in the performances and sometimes singing and dancing along, inviting the audience to share in the joy of discovery.
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75
Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
As filmmaking, the docu is only travel-diary so-so. But the chance to experience the machine-gun rhymes of ''the Turkish Eminem'' - a young man called Ceza - is priceless.
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70
Variety Derek Elley
One of the world's great cities comes vibrantly alive through its music and musical denizens in Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul.
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70
Village Voice R. Emmet Sweeney
In briskly edited sequences peppered with fascinating found footage, each genre is tightly linked to a neighborhood.
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70
Chicago Reader Peter Margasak
The intimate performance footage ranges from more traditional sounds to Turkish iterations of global styles like rock, hip-hop, and electronica, delivering commentary on the nation's conflicted status as a bridge between Europe and Asia that's even more poignant than the passionate and informative interviews.
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70
Washington Post Stephen Hunter
An infectious (in a good way) documentary.
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60
The Hollywood Reporter Duane Byrge
This musical documentary likely will find its major audience in Germany, where the immigrant-minority Turk citizenry will take to its array of sounds, smears and social commentary as cultural nourishment.
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50
Austin Chronicle Marrit Ingman
The movie doesn't quite add up beyond its performances.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this movie is 9.5 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Stefan S. gave it a10:
Vibrant. Wild. It kicked my ass and I liked it...a lot.

ufak D. gave it a9:
Where is rock and metal muic inside this movie. I do not listen to it but Istanbul has also rock music and fans, not bands like Duman...that band has not rock music but I love really Fatih Akın Thank you for that brilliant movie

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