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Winner of the Best Film and FIPRESCI prizes at the Istanbul
International Film Festival, Reha Erdem's Times and Winds is a film
"bewitched by the rhythms of everyday life" (The Village Voice) that "packs
a poetic-spiritual punch way beyond its placid surface" (Variety). Laying
bare forbidden yearnings, dawning sexuality, and oedipal rage, it tells the
story of three pre-adolescent friends coming of age in a remote Turkish
mountain village.
Young teen Omer (Özkan Özen) contemplates the unthinkable as he
bitterly struggles under the loveless emotional yoke of his scornful Muslim
cleric father. Yakup (Ali Bey Kayali), Omer's best friend, obsesses over a
beautiful schoolteacher. Yildiz (Elit Iscan) recoils from burgeoning
womanhood, and from the sordid carnal realities she has grown too old to
ignore.
Blessed with painterly wide-screen visuals, Estonian composer Arvo
Part's sublime music score, and phenomenally surefooted performances from an
astonishingly adept young cast, Times and Winds contrasts a parochial
society's unending chain of cruelty with the pagan natural world's eternal
and sensual beauty. Wise in its depiction of the cycle of life, and
unblinking in its exploration of fate's capricious malice and childhood's
discontent, Times and Winds' "vision of people in thrall to religious ritual
and living at the mercy of nature may be poetic, but it is no idyll" (The
New York Times).
2007 Turkey 111 min. Color Letterboxed (2.35:1)
Enhanced for 16x9 TVs
In Turkish with optional English subtitles
ATLANTIK FILM presents
A film by REHA ERDEM
TIMES AND WINDS (Bes¸ Vakit)
ÖZKAN ÖZEN ALI BEY KAYALI ELIT ISCAN
BÜLENT EMIN YARAR TANER BIRSEL YI—GIT ÖZSENER
Cinematography FLORENT HERRY
Sound HERVE GUYADER MURAT SENÜRKMEZ
Editing REHA ERDEM Original Score ARVO PART
Producer ÖMER ATAY
Written and Directed by REHA ERDEM
© 2006 ATLANTIK FILM YAPIM LTD.
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