Cinema
Mayıs Sıkıntısı
Nuri Bilge Ceylan · 1999
Synopsis
In May, Muzaffer, a filmmaker, returns to the small Anatolian town where his family lives to shoot a film with them, according to trigon-film. His father, Emin, fights to save the small forest he tends, which the authorities threaten to confiscate; his cousin Saffet, who failed his university entrance, works at the factory and dreams of Istanbul; his nephew Ali, nine, must keep an egg intact in his pocket to win a musical watch. Absorbed in his film, Muzaffer barely notices their troubles, according to Premiers Plans.
Context
The director is also its screenwriter, cinematographer, editor and producer, according to trigon-film. His parents, Emin and Fatma Ceylan, act in it alongside Muzaffer Özdemir and Emin Toprak. LaCinetek describes it as halfway between fiction and documentary. It is placed in the middle of a trilogy of the provinces, between a first feature of 1997 and a film of 2002. It obtained its French visa on 15 March 2001.
Who it is for
A two-hour-and-ten-minute film in Turkish, released in France in 2001, issued on DVD and offered as video on demand.
Prizes and reception
Best Director at Antalya in 1999, in competition at Berlin in 2000, Golden Tulip at Istanbul and Grand Prize at Angers in 2001.
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