A family torn apart, a story of loss, a father who lost his freedom, a mother who lost his integrity, and a child who lost his support.
The film leaves the family in a state of absence. In the first half of the film, the father is in prison, and the tension in the mother-son relationship seems natural and believable, while the second half of the film deliberately excludes the son, and because of the lack of nine months of records, the mother is this one. The shift in key roles appears more incomprehensible.
It also made the film not as touching as I imagined.
But Nuri Bilge Ceylan definitely deserves the best director at Cannes, and every paragraph alone is perfect. Maybe he still needs a smoother, more perfect script, and one day he will get that leaf that belongs to him.
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