Combining elements of western with noir and intense sociopolitical comments in a Turkish movie, is not something we see everyday. It is, however, exactly what Emin Alper has achieved in “Burning Days”, an impressive movie in a number of ways.
“Burning Days” is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
Emre, a young and “by the book” prosecutor is newly appointed to a small town, where a water crisis has been causing sinkholes in the area, as the rather imposing first scene eloquently highlights. Soon, and after a wild boar hunt inside the streets of the town, he realizes that water is not the only problem, a sense that becomes even more intense when the next day, Sahin, the son of the local mayor, and his dentist friend, visit him in his office. Their attitude ranges from subservient to threatening, but their purpose, of taking him “on their side” is quite evident.
“Burning Days” is screening at Vesoul International Film Festival of Asian Cinema
Emre, a young and “by the book” prosecutor is newly appointed to a small town, where a water crisis has been causing sinkholes in the area, as the rather imposing first scene eloquently highlights. Soon, and after a wild boar hunt inside the streets of the town, he realizes that water is not the only problem, a sense that becomes even more intense when the next day, Sahin, the son of the local mayor, and his dentist friend, visit him in his office. Their attitude ranges from subservient to threatening, but their purpose, of taking him “on their side” is quite evident.
- 3/2/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Combining elements of western with noir and intense sociopolitical comments in a Turkish movie, is not something we see everyday. It is, however, exactly what Emin Alper has achieved in “Burning Days”, an impressive movie in a number of ways.
“Burning Days“ is screening at Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Emre, a young and “by the book” prosecutor is newly appointed to a small town, where a water crisis has been causing sinkholes in the area, as the rather imposing first scene eloquently highlights. Soon, and after a wild boar hunt inside the streets of the town, he realizes that water is not the only problem, a sense that becomes even more intense when the next day, Sahin, the son of the local mayor, and his dentist friend, visit him in his office. Their attitude ranges from subservient to threatening, but their purpose, of taking him “on their side” is quite evident.
“Burning Days“ is screening at Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Emre, a young and “by the book” prosecutor is newly appointed to a small town, where a water crisis has been causing sinkholes in the area, as the rather imposing first scene eloquently highlights. Soon, and after a wild boar hunt inside the streets of the town, he realizes that water is not the only problem, a sense that becomes even more intense when the next day, Sahin, the son of the local mayor, and his dentist friend, visit him in his office. Their attitude ranges from subservient to threatening, but their purpose, of taking him “on their side” is quite evident.
- 11/10/2022
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Compassion is in almost as short supply as water in Emin Alper’s sardonic, seething Un Certain Regard breakout “Burning Days,” a parched little parable about small-town corruption in chokingly patriarchal rural Turkey. Beginning and ending on the lip of a massive sinkhole on the village outskirts, and featuring a manhunt that echoes a wild boar hunt and a mirage-like lake whose waters may or may not be toxic, here, the cool filmmaking is subtler than the metaphors. But then, with mass detentions during the recent Turkish Pride celebrations still in the headlines, when it comes to homophobia, misogyny, masculine crisis and the other attendant cruelties of this strongman-led society, these are not subtle times.
A more genre-inflected movie than Alper’s Berlinale competition title “A Tale of Three Sisters”, “Burning Days” benefits from Alper’s sparse, boiled-dry screenplay and from Dp Christos Karamanis’s casually devastating widescreen photography. In an emblematically sweeping shot,...
A more genre-inflected movie than Alper’s Berlinale competition title “A Tale of Three Sisters”, “Burning Days” benefits from Alper’s sparse, boiled-dry screenplay and from Dp Christos Karamanis’s casually devastating widescreen photography. In an emblematically sweeping shot,...
- 6/29/2022
- by Jessica Kiang
- Variety Film + TV
On the one hand, Emin Alper’s Burning Days is a discreet but telling account of the resurgence of homophobia — a key plank of right-wing populism — in Turkey. On the other hand, it’s a half-and-half genre film: half crime thriller and half western.
In the Cannes Un Certain Regard entry, a conscientious public prosecutor comes from the city to a small town, where he soon finds himself at the wrong end of the townsfolk’s pitchforks. It’s Wyatt Earp, basically, except that city boy Emre (Selahbattin Pasali) is the kind of public official whose integrity is expressed by doing everything by the book. He is also very neatly turned out, even when his water isn’t working. As it often isn’t: more on this in a minute.
Emre is also awkward, unable to find conversational common ground with the local big-wigs. A local election looms; nevertheless, the...
In the Cannes Un Certain Regard entry, a conscientious public prosecutor comes from the city to a small town, where he soon finds himself at the wrong end of the townsfolk’s pitchforks. It’s Wyatt Earp, basically, except that city boy Emre (Selahbattin Pasali) is the kind of public official whose integrity is expressed by doing everything by the book. He is also very neatly turned out, even when his water isn’t working. As it often isn’t: more on this in a minute.
Emre is also awkward, unable to find conversational common ground with the local big-wigs. A local election looms; nevertheless, the...
- 5/26/2022
- by Stephanie Bunbury
- Deadline Film + TV
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