Enthralling and occasionally uncomfortable, it's another example of the quality emerging from the blossoming Turkish film industry.
This is an elegant and cerebral piece of work, but finally a little subdued, and perhaps doesn't measure up to the expectations of the opening 10 minutes.
Two great performances hold together Reis Celik’s slow-moving study of child brides, where a 14-year-old Turkish girl (Dilan Aksut) is forced to marry an old man (Ilyas Salman) in order to end a feud between two families. On their wedding night, she tries to distract him with storytelling.
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