Nejat Isler, Saadet Isil Aksoy, Ufuk Bayraktar
When his mother dies, Yusuf, returns to his home village, where he hasn't visited for years. Upon his arrival, he finds a young girl named Ayla who had been living with his mother for the past five ye...( read more
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Poet Yusuf (35-38) returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn't visited for years, upon his mother's death. He is faced with a neglected, crumbling house. Ayla, a young girl (17-19) awaits him there. Yusuf has been unaware of the existence of this distant relation who had b...( read more)
Poet Yusuf returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn't visited for years, upon his mother's death. A young girl, Ayla awaits him in a crumbling house. Yusuf has been unaware of the existence of this distant relation who had been living with his mother for five years.
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Sense of not belonging to a place where is alienating & peaceful at the same time
The style of film-making of Yumurta (especially the opening scene) recalls Andrei Tarkovksy or according to some people Robert Bresson. I agree with this, even if I think that there is a wide gap between Egg and Tarkovsky's masterworks. Before starting, I want to use the classic ...( read more)
For me, it's a successful variation of Camus' THE STRANGER, told beautifully in rural landscapes of Turkey, when there is no need to gun and killing for being alienated!!!
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