2013 · drama · history
The Butterfly's Dream
Directed by Yılmaz Erdoğan2h 18m2013
In a small Turkish town, two young tuberculous poets try to survive while publishing their poems. As they both fall in love, their life would never be the same.
Our read: The Butterfly's Dream (2013) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · history entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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