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A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion
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Kitchen W8
Too long and drawn out but very entertaining with excellent special effects
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Reader rating
Dir: Cagan Irmak.
Cast: Cemal Hunal, Melis Birkan, Yildiz Kultur
Description: Talented chef Alper is a genius in the kitchen but a failure in affairs of the heart, ricocheting between one-night stands and escort girls, who provide him with the fleeting company he desires. During the search for an old record, he wanders into a second-hand bookshop in the back streets of Beyoglu and falls under the spell of customer Ada, who makes fancy dress costumes for children and is looking for a particular, old book. Determined to make this beautiful woman's acquaintance, Alper finds and purchases the book and thus begins a passionate affair. While Ada luxuriates in the attentions of a new man, Alper begins to feel suffocated by a permanent fixture in his crowded universe and questions whether he is capable of commitment.
Country: TURK. 2008. 115mins
Irreconcilable differences: Melis Birkan and Cemal Hunal
This hugely successful Turkish pot-boiler is about a young man in Istanbul who restlessly visits prostitutes to get his weird kicks — and then falls in love with a girl who is really not into that sort of thing. But he can’t contain his more outlandish sexual desires.
Director Cagan Irmak shoots this with some poise and it’s decently acted by Cemal Hunal and Melis Birkan. For a Turkish commercial movie, it has a bit of audacity about it but cynical Westerners may ask why the man doesn’t just marry her and indulge his more unorthodox sexual hobbies on the side now and then.
Mistresses are, after all, not entirely unknown in Turkey.
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