Mustang (2015)
Country: FR/GER/TUR/QAT
Technical: col/2.35:1 97m
Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Cast: Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu
Synopsis:
Five Turkish sisters cavort with their fellow students on the beach after the end of term, and when they return home to their grandma and uncle they are accused of lewd conduct. There follows an increasingly harsh regime of incarceration within the home that includes arranged marriage, a rigorous dress code, and sexual abuse.
Review:
An interesting European variation on Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, with a particularly phallocratic religious hypocrisy at work, and a womankind that acquiesces to its own repressions. The child actors are astonishingly good, and cinematography strikes just the right balance (more than Coppola's) between documentary realism and beautification, capturing the defiant self-assertiveness of the girls in a way that simultaneously conveys their sexual dangerousness.
Country: FR/GER/TUR/QAT
Technical: col/2.35:1 97m
Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Cast: Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu
Synopsis:
Five Turkish sisters cavort with their fellow students on the beach after the end of term, and when they return home to their grandma and uncle they are accused of lewd conduct. There follows an increasingly harsh regime of incarceration within the home that includes arranged marriage, a rigorous dress code, and sexual abuse.
Review:
An interesting European variation on Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, with a particularly phallocratic religious hypocrisy at work, and a womankind that acquiesces to its own repressions. The child actors are astonishingly good, and cinematography strikes just the right balance (more than Coppola's) between documentary realism and beautification, capturing the defiant self-assertiveness of the girls in a way that simultaneously conveys their sexual dangerousness.
Country: FR/GER/TUR/QAT
Technical: col/2.35:1 97m
Director: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Cast: Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu
Synopsis:
Five Turkish sisters cavort with their fellow students on the beach after the end of term, and when they return home to their grandma and uncle they are accused of lewd conduct. There follows an increasingly harsh regime of incarceration within the home that includes arranged marriage, a rigorous dress code, and sexual abuse.
Review:
An interesting European variation on Coppola's The Virgin Suicides, with a particularly phallocratic religious hypocrisy at work, and a womankind that acquiesces to its own repressions. The child actors are astonishingly good, and cinematography strikes just the right balance (more than Coppola's) between documentary realism and beautification, capturing the defiant self-assertiveness of the girls in a way that simultaneously conveys their sexual dangerousness.