1989 · drama · surreal · debut
A Ay
Directed by Reha Erdem1h 38m1989
Eleven-year-old Yekta lives in a crumbling island mansion with her strict aunts and ailing grandfather, yearning for her absent mother. As dreams and surreal visions shape her solitude, she sets out in search of a mythical seagull with a child’s head.
Our read: A Ay (1989) reads as a sombre, measured, surreal drama · surreal · debut entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / surreal, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- inventive
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