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JOURNEY ON THE HOUR HAND (AKREBIN YOLCULUGU)
(TURKEY, 1997, 119 min.)
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MONDAY 10/27 WEDNESDAY 10/29 |
9:30 PM 1:15 PM |
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10/27 MANN'S CHINESE 10/29 LAEMMLE'S MONICA #3 |
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U.S. PREMIERE A double winner for best film and best direction in the Istanbul fest's national competition, this existential mystery tale about a clock mender who arrives in a village where time has stopped has a jewel-like perfection... When a stranger hands the clockmender a key to a mysterious clock tower, he heads off to repair it. Esra, the owner, is a dark lady who spends her time weaving cloth on a loom and mourning her dead daughter. She seduces the enamored clockmender, ignoring the brooding suspicions of her hunter-husband. Strange things start happening to Kerem. He witnesses a murder on a lake, but the corpse disappears. Repairing the clock (which stopped when the little girl died), Kerem discovers there was a previous mender who had an affair with Esra and mysteriously disappeared... The plot could be a Patricia Highsmith mystery, except for Kavur's preoccupation with symbols and archetypes. One of these is certainly the boarding house where Kerem finds lodging, inhabited by mute parrots, blind musicians and an occasional overdressed dwarf... -Deborah Young, VARIETY.
DIR Ömer Kavur PROD Ömer Kavur, Janos Rozsa, Anna Vasova SCR Macit Koper, Ömer Kavur DP Erdal Kahraman PROD DES Selma Gürbüz ED Mevlut Kocak CAST Mehmet Aslantug, Sahika Tekand, Tuncel Kurtiz DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
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