Gönül yarasi (2005)

User Rating:

8.1/10   

Director:

Yavuz Turgul

Writer:

Yavuz Turgul (writer)

Release Date:

7 January 2005 (Turkey)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Idealist Nazim returns home to his family in Istanbul after a 15-year gap away teaching in a remote Turkish village in eastern Turkey...

Plot Keywords:

Love | Village | Taxi Driver | Taxi | Violence

Awards:

5 wins

Cast

Meltem Cumbul	...	Dünya
Sener Sen	...	Nazim
Timuçin Esen	...	Halil
Güven Kiraç	...	Memet
Devin Özgür Cinar	...	Piraye
Erdal Tosun	...	Hasmet
Sümer Tilmaç	...	Takoz
Ecenaz Kiziltan	...	Melek
Inci Sen	...	Nurse
Aynur Dogan	...	Herself
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Atilla Pakdemir
Mübeccel Vardar	...	Berrin

Also Known As:

Lovelorn (International: English title)
Yürek yarasi (Turkey: Turkish title)

Runtime:

142 min

Country:

Turkey

Language:

Turkish | Kurdish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:15

Filming Locations:

Istanbul, Turkey

Company:

Filma-Cass

The Turkish version of "Enough"

Sener Sen is perfect. Meltem Cumbul plays not her film character but a crafty player playing her character. Timucin Esen is perfect. Director Yavuz Turgul's story seems like borrowed from Michael Apted's "Enough" (which starred Jennifer Lopez and script of which is written by Nicholas Kazan). Both "Gonul Yarasi" and "Enough" have the same storyline, in which an oppressed woman ill treated by her psychopathic husband runs away from him taking her (and his) child with her.

It may be said that there is no part for Sener Sen in "Enough". Well, there is no need for the part of Sener Sen in "Gonul Yarasi", either. Everything told and shown about the character Sen plays is just secondary and does not support the main plot of Gonul Yarasi. Yavuz Turgul could easily omit Sen's character from the story and better focus his camera on Cumbul and Esen relation. In that case, the character of Sümer Tilmaç would get a little larger and deeper and could include (only when necessary) Sen's part, too.

Although the name of Sener Sen is written on the top of the cast, although the camera sees him more frequently than any other character; "Gonul Yarasi" is essentially Cumbul's and Esen's story (the implied love between Sen and Cumbul is just a rifle which never fires in the story) and Sener Sen is just a helpless witness in it, unable to do anything to change the course and the finale of the main plot which is also the main plot of "Enough".

But in order to make justice towards Turgul, we must declare that despite the flaws of the plot (for example, the psychopathic husband wouldn't tolerate for one moment Sen's giving Cumbul shelter at his home and living together with her under the same roof) "Gonul Yarasi" is much better a film than "Enough" in many ways including credibility and artistic quality. COSKUN BUKTEL