This film won the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
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Dillon 2022-03-28 09:01:07
Far from Istanbul, in Anatolia, retired theater actor Aiden (Haluk Bilginer) starts a new life as a columnist. He pretended to care about writing religious articles day after day, immersed in the seemingly profound thinking world created by himself, unable to extricate himself. Aiden runs a hotel with pension funds and has several properties under his name that are being rented out, which makes him look more hypocritical and cold in the process of contacting ordinary people. The younger sister Nika (Demet Akbag) divorced at an early age, often huddled in Aiden's study arguing about writing, and even taunting and criticizing each other. His wife Nihal (Melisa Sözen) is young and independent and is passionate about various charitable causes. Old couples and young wives with different attitudes towards life are getting farther and farther apart, and their relationship is rifted...
This film won the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
This film won the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.
Extended Reading
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Aydin: Justice doesn't even exist in nature, why should it exist here?
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Aydin: [Epilogue] Nihal, I didn't go away. I couldn't. Whether it's because I've grown old, or I've gone mad, or because I've become a different man, think what you like. I just don't know. But this new man inside me for a few days won't let me go away. Please, don't ask me to go either. I now understand nothing is calling me to Istanbul. Everything is alien to me there as it is everywhere else. I want you to know that I have no one but you. And I miss you every minute, every second that goes by. But my pride will never let me tell you this. I know very well how to terrible or impossible it would be to part from you. Just as I know that you do not love me anymore. I know we can't go back to the old days. And there is no need to. Take me with you like a servant, like a slave. And let us continue our life even if we do it your way. Forgive me.