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Tepenin Ardi (2012)
Suspiciousness against imaginative enemies
The film is technically a masterpiece. The long periods of silence succeeding natural sounds incorporate the viewer into the scenery and the atmosphere.
The key to the comprehension of the movie is the closeted parallel of this archaic in manners Turkish family with the modern state. What prevails is suspiciousness against imaginative external enemies as well as hidden guilt between the members of the inner family. The outcome is quite tragicomic and indicative of the obsessions and artificial dead ends which point at the "foreign" as the source of all our woes.
I also underlined the scene where the little girl with all its innocence states that we are also nomads, so "these" nomads won't do us any harm. The mature man replies that "they are bad nomads" and so differ from the morally immaculate family.
Mikra Anglia (2013)
Excellent photography of the Greek island
The film is surely worth seeing. The scenario is a moving romance with a touch of humble human sentiments frequently encountered in middle class families. The cast is almost perfect. The internal and external scenery is, to my opinion, the big hit of the movie. The other is the affectionate and caring as well as harsh and absolute relationships prevailing in the micro-society of a small island of the 1930's, where everyone is somehow relative to the other and secrets cannot be hidden forever. However, it doesn't fail to share the general sentimental exaggeration of Voulgaris' films - to some viewers the most attractive side of his movies.