2007 · drama · minimalist · rural
Egg
Directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu1h 37m2007
Poet Yusuf (35-38) returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn't visited for years, upon his mother's death. He is faced with a neglected, crumbling house. Ayla, a young girl (17-19) awaits him there. Yusuf has been unaware of the existence of this distant relation who had been living with his mother for five years; He stays by his dead mother's bedside for a while on the morning of his return...
Our read: Egg (2007) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive drama · minimalist · rural entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, measured drama / minimalist, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
- intimate
Watching Egg 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 Egg 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 slow poetic Turkish story of returning home after loss and quiet bonds.”
Skip it tonight — You need momentum, plot twists or fast-paced dialogue.
Eight films that feel like this one.
Closest in the twelve-axis space, not “people also liked”. All films like Egg, 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 →