2006 · comedy · drama · history
Killing the Shadows
Directed by Ezel Akay2h 15m2006
Killing The Shadows is a bawdy comic fable set in the Ottoman Empire during the mid-14th century based on two legendary figures in Turkish folkore, the jester Hacivat (Beyazit Ozturk) and the nomad Karagoz (Haluk Bilginer), men who apparently lived and died by their sense of humour.
Our read: Killing the Shadows (2006) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · drama · history entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, gentle comedy / drama, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- gentle
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