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2011 · drama · romance

Love Likes Coincidences

Directed by Ömer Faruk Sorak1h 58m2011

Year 1977, a September morning in Ankara... Yilmaz tries to rush his pregnant wife Neriman to the hospital and he crushes into Omer's car. This accident causes Omer's pregnant wife Inci, who was in the back seat, to have a pre-term labor. The babies are born on the same day. They see each other for the first time... This accident is the threshold of the coincidences that bring Ozgur and Deniz together.

Our read: Love Likes Coincidences (2011) reads as a neutral, steady, grounded drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.

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Neutral, steady, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.

ElsewhereIMDb7.220k
  • gentle
  • tender
  • intimate
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How Love Likes Coincidences feels to watch.

Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.

MoodHeavy ↔ Cosy
PacingSlow-burn ↔ Kinetic
IntensityGentle ↔ Extreme
WeirdnessConventional ↔ Surreal
HopeNihilistic ↔ Redemptive
StakesIntimate ↔ Epic
HumourNone ↔ Broad
RealityGrounded ↔ Fantastical
DensitySparse ↔ Twisty
WarmthCold ↔ Tender
AuteurTransparent ↔ Signature
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“You want sweeping Turkish destiny-romance threading coincidences across decades until Istanbul finally connects.”

ends warmyou’ll feel glowing aftera slow buildgrips by minute 22attention 3/5earns its lengthsubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonight — Near-two-hour melodrama with subtitles loses you unless slow-burn fate-of-lovers hooks you.

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