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84 out of 100

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7.0 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 14 Ratings

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  • Summary: A photographer who is haunted by the feeling that the gap between his ideals and his real life is growing finds himself obliged to put up in his apartment a young relative who has left behind his village looking for a job aboard a ship in Istanbul to go abroad.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 17 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Wilmington
    100
    A Chekhovian tale of major artistic power.
  2. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    100
    Mood, atmosphere, and character are more important than story twists in this unassuming, acutely observant drama.
  3. The New Republic
    Reviewed by: Stanley Kauffmann
    60
    The film might be called a moral travelogue. Instead of showing us mosques and tourist spots in beguiling old Istanbul, it follows a couple of ordinary Turkish men in drab surroundings and affirms that they breathe the same doubt-laden air as much of the rest of the world.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 2 out of 10
  1. DanC.
    6
    Beautiful and highly emotionally effective in parts, but the price to be paid is too high. Long stretches of no dialogue, no action, nothing but beautiful visuals or ponderously serious scenes of a man walking silently across a field.A film doesn't have to be so slow and take itself so seriously to be great or to say something important about life. At some point, the intentionally glacial pace becomes self-indulgent on the director's part. Yet somewhere within this flawed framework is a moving story with genuine power to captivate the viewer.… Expand
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