Yol
by Yilmaz G?ney, Serif G?ren
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Actor: Halil Erg?n, Meral Orhonsay, Necmettin ?obanoglu, Serif Sezer, Tarik AkanDirector: Serif G?ren, Yilmaz G?ney
Edition: VHS Tape
Audio: Kurdish (Original Language); Turkish (Original Language)
Format: Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Subtitled
Running Time: 115 minutes
Release Date: 1991-07-31
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Publisher: Columbia/Tri-Star
Studio: Columbia/Tri-Star
VHS Movie Reviews of Yol
Movie Review: Awful
Summary: 1 Stars
Complete rubbish from start to finish, the hand wringing liberals of course will love it. Something to discuss over a glass of wine when the conversation starts to die down and you cant find a guardian newspaper or a Robert Fisk article to discuss.
The film centres around several men on short release from prison who all journey home to visit families with various results. One man to the south east where he falls in love with a local woman but ends up having to marry his sister in law after his brother is killed smuggling. When the brothers body is brought back its shown as though these people are some kind of local heros fighting against the 'evil army' opressing them.
Now someone with little knowledge of Turkey or Islam may not notice this but in one scene we have this man courting the lady he has fallen in love with, with her 2 female relatives all in black veils following behind. The man instructs her how she will 'behave' once they are married and her response of course is to flutter her eyes and remark how well he speaks. Now aside from the shear nonsense of this scene (I'm sure it went down well with the middle class hand wringers in whatever country this pile of rubbish won an award, oh how it confirmed how backward those 'dreadful dark skinned folk are' how they must be 'civilized' and their opressed women folk 'liberated')
Then nonsene continues; The same man who it seems is courting the girl from a burqa clad family then sits and drink raki (alcohol) with his mates then goes and sleeps with a couple of prostitutes! Now anyone with even the most basic knowledge of Turkey knows only the most ulta religious in the country wear burqa (usually the Naqshbandis) and there wouldnt be a chance in hell of them even contemplating giving their daughter in marriage to some drunk who sleeps around at the local brothel.
Next we have noble hero no 2 a bank robber no less who ran off and left his mates to die. Oh how his family curse him "You have no honour" (Some might say being a bank robber in the first place he has no honour) how they deny him his wife and family. Anyway, they run off regarless, biology takes over and they go for a quickie in the foulest toilet on a train. Sadly our romeo and juliet are discovered by a mob (who acording to the translator who seems to think serifsiz means gavur as he translates this (wrongly) to mean 'infidel')
No 3 goes off to the snow capped mountains to find his missus chained up in the shed after being found doing the rounds in a local brothel by her family (who are a very religious sort, of course) They instruct him to kill her off and even pray for him to have the strength to do the job!
No doubt this pointless rubbish would win awards. It covers just about every single stereotype we in the west love so much. Problem is, you would have to be insane to even consider this even a half decent film. The acting is awful, the subtitiles are incorrect, playing a bit of Turkish folk music and having some unshaven local looking into the camera does not make a film worth watching. This is utter rubbish from start to finish.
Avoid at all costs!
Movie Review: An incisive and devastating film!
Summary: 5 Stars
The most eloquent protest against the rampant struggling oppression, and oppressive government and autoritarism is expressed marvelously in this breathtaking film that will let you shocked due the realism and the crudeness of its own nature.
Winner of the Grand Prix in Cannes. A true artistic feat of his Director Serif Goren.Go for this one.
It is less than amazing this film has not been released on DVD format!
Movie Review: BRAVO *****
Summary: 5 Stars
One word can really sum up this movie - WOW! This is a brilliant film written objectively; it realistically depicts life in Turkey. Yilmaz Guney mastered "Yol" and he deserves much due praise for this masterpiece. Tarik Akan, a supreme Turkish actor, displayed the role of "Seyit" flawlessly and the remaining four prisoners, which the film closely followed, perfected their characters, instilling much deep feeling into the hearts of the audience. This film is an excellent tool in trying to familiarize oneself about the Turkish-Kurdish lifestyle and the role of the Turkish government. The audience is not subjected to any biases; instead, they are able to view the situation through both lenses - the Kurds and the government. This is honestly one of the best films I have seen, other works pale in comparison.Movie Review: A beautiful film
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a beautiful film. The film was directed by Yilmaz Guney when he was in jail. The assistant director Serif Goren shot the film in absence of Guney. There are lots of debates about who deserves the credit. As like any good films, the process of the making a film, is not just with the cinematography, or editing or script writing, it's more with the vision and how each pieces of work are integrated together to represent the final vision of the film. Although there are not much of materials to indicate who delivers this final form, I tend to believe that it's Guney's work of art. Even besides the controversy, this film is beautiful creation of art. The films runs parallel with the life of five prisoner, when they are released for one week, a sort of vacation. When these characters came out of the prison, through series of check post, they finally arrives their familiar surroundings which again symbolize them as a victim of cultural repression. It is a personal film, of certain characters who are the victim of repression, political and cultural both. Probably for any aspiring society to be liberated from repression, it is necessary identify the roots of repression which has it roots in cultural blindness and also the political aspiration of the elite class. And they often converge very well. These are just two sides of a coin, which lay down victims on both the side as it rolls on. This beautifully displays the emotion, na?ve emotions of human aspiration, parallels across different cultures, and their conflicts deeply rooted in the culture. The editing of the film is superb, and that's why I reserve to take the credit away from Guney, who blend the glimpses, moments of different people, different ambience, smoothly, to resembles like a poetry of basic human emotions, their desires and their conflicts. I agree with the other reviewer, that it's not the best documentary of Turkey, but again that's not the point. This is a seriously film, who are interested getting involved with the character, and let aside their judgmental intelligence. This film is something to be seen and feel, and the rationalization comes much later.Movie Review: More powerful than you can imagine
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie affected me a thousand times more than any other movie ever has--everything in it is completely perfectly done; all of the characters are perfectly acted, it's perfectly directed and written. Brilliant. Extremely difficult to watch because of the painful realism but, despite some other reviewers' complaints, the story was to me ultimately a personal story, and it was the way the individuals interacted that struck me; it was not solely a political film. I came out of the theatre seven hours ago, yet simply remembering certain scenes can still make me cry--and I imagine will continue to be able to. I'm definitely going to have to try and track down some other Yilmaz Guney films; I can't compliment this one enough.
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