1997 · drama · noir · fate
Innocence
Directed by Zeki Demirkubuz1h 50m1997
Yusuf is released from prison after serving a ten year sentence. Because of unexpected problems at his sister’s house, he finds himself in a cheap hotel where he meets a man, a woman, and a child who will change his life in unexpected ways…
Our read: Innocence (1997) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded drama · noir · fate entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, measured, measured drama / noir, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- measured
- intense
- bleak
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“You want austere Turkish minimalism about longing after prison and lost innocence.”
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