2000 · comedy · romance · road
In July
Directed by Fatih Akin1h 36m2000
Daniel’s drab existence as a physics teacher takes an adventurous turn when he falls in love with a Turkish girl named Melek. He spontaneously decides to follow her to Instanbul by car. On the road across Europe, he picks up his free-spirited friend Juli, who is secretly in love with him.
Our read: In July (2000) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · romance · road entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- redemptive
- intimate
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