Mustang

5/14/2016

> The clash of culture and modern lifestyle. This is a Turkish film with the Turkish cast and crew, but financially co-supported by France. So it was nominated for the 88th American Academy Awards to represent France, after the Turkish film board denied to pick it. The film is set in the rural that tells a story of five young orphaned sisters who were raised by their stereotype grandmother and strict uncle. It depicts how those girls grow up without the parental supervise which is more essential than under others care and challenges they face due to difference between modern lifestyle they want to adopt and old traditions they inherited. I know everybody comparing it with 'The Virgin Suicides' and so I thought the same because that's what everyone thinks who had watched these two fil

3/2/2025

This is quite a confusing film to appreciate as it’s not entirely clear who it is for. It depicts the family lives of five orphaned girls who range from early teens to early womanhood who are living with their guardians on the coast of Northern Turkey. It’s after some fun, fully clothed, japes in the sea with some equally clothed lads that one of their neighbours complains of their “scandalous” behaviour. Of course, their grandmother (Nihal G. Koldas) goes a bit incandescent but not as much as the man of their household “Uncle Erol” (Ayberk Pekcan) who irrationally concludes that they have been permitted too much freedom and liberty as they have grown up, and that has got to stop. Slowly, but surely, they find their home becoming more like a secure waiting room for the marriage bed as they