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THEIR SPIRIT WOULD NEVER BE BROKEN.Ā 

After a day of fun and games with their male schoolmates, five sisters are punished by their strict, older relatives who decide the time has come to lock them up until theyā€™re all married off. In Turkey, this was a much-discussed feature film debut by the director who based a part of the story on her own experiences. The film addresses destructive cultural habits, including honor issues. Thereā€™s plenty of reason to get angry, but the film is also a warm and humorous portrait of girlhood; ultimately, thereā€™s also tension, as the sisters prepare to escape. We realize early on where the film is headed, but itā€™s engrossing.Ā 

2015-Turkey. 97 min. Color. Widescreen. Produced byĀ Charles Gillibert. Directed byĀ Deniz Gamze ErgĆ¼ven. Screenplay: Deniz Gamze ErgĆ¼ven, Alice Winocour. Music: Warren Ellis. Cast: GĆ¼nes Sensoy (Lale), Doga Doguslu (Nur), Elit Iscan (Ece), Tugba Sunguroglu, Ilayda Akdogan, Nihal Koldas.

Last word: ā€œIā€™m the youngest in a family in which two generations are constituted of girls, so there are many little details that are true. There are no forced marriages in my family, but we always had conservative figures. There was one father-in-law who was very conservative: an unmarried couple could not enter his house, and I never, ever told him I had a boyfriend ā€“ or not until I was 56. [She laughs: she is 37.] The little scandal in the film did take place in my family, albeit not as violently. The girls being beaten in order of age: that was something that happened in my motherā€™s generation.ā€ (ErgĆ¼ven, The Guardian)

 

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