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  • Climates (2006)
    Review preview for Climates

    The film is like a shout, dying in the throat, with the sound turned down, so that everything is expressed through the eyes and nothing is resolved, nor talked through, like it would be in a Bergman movie.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Study of an emotional crisis within a fractured relationship in Istanbul.
  • Girdap (2008)
    Review preview for Girdap

    Although it suffers from a sometimes clumsy script and an intrusive soundtrack, this is an emotionally intelligent film with more to say for itself than is at first apparent.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A group of new university students in Istanbul are gradually radicalised, with tragic consequences.

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