2016 · drama · siblings · forest
Big Big World
Directed by Reha Erdem1h 40m2016
Ali and Zuhal take their first step out of the orphanage into this big world committing a crime. It becomes impossible for them to live amongst people now, and the forest they take shelter in becomes a desert island for them. A boy and a girl that were thrown out of the civilized world would live the entire human story from scratch.
Our read: Big Big World (2016) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive drama · siblings · forest entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / siblings, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- inventive
Watching Big Big World tonight? Spin for your lens.
Everyone on the couch spins once and gets one craft to watch for. After the credits, compare what you caught.
Your lens for tonight
?
Everyone on the couch gets one craft to watch for. Spin the wheel to get yours. Sound on: the narrator reads your mission.
More info & search links
How Big Big World feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want a poetic surreal Turkish story of orphans creating life in the forest.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if child peril, brief nudity, or enigmatic slow films turn you off.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Big Big World, with why →
Discussion
Make it a movie night.
Pick a mood, get a film the whole couch will enjoy, and give everyone something to watch for.
Pick tonight's film →