"Aşk Tesadüfleri Sever" (2011)

Next beautiful Turkish story about love and suffering. About the role of the fate which is our friend or enemy sometimes. After this movie everyone will understand that "Love cannot save you from your own fate". 

Directed by: Ömer Faruk Sorak
Story by: Ipek Sorak
Starring: Belçim Bilgin Erdoğan, Mehmet Günsür
Music by: Ozan Çolakoğlu

PLOT

This remarkable story begins in September 1977 in Ankara. One day a young couple comes to the hospital. Woman is pregnant and this is a day when her baby will be born. Her husband is very stressed out and he causes an accident. He crashes into another couple's car. Because of the accident woman from that car gives birth prematurely. As a result both babies are born on the same day, in the same place. This is the first (but not last) meeting of Özgür and Deniz. During many years they live in the same city at a location nearby. They don't know each other but the fate does not let them to separate. Ankara is a place of their childhood and teenage years. 

After 25 years they meet again but this time in Istanbul. Özgür is a photoghapher and Deniz is a theater actress engaged to a rich businessman. One evening she goes to a photo exhibition and sees her own photo, which has been taken when she was a little girl. The author of the photo is Özgür's father who died some years before. This evening will be the most important moment for Özgür and Deniz.

It seems to be such an easy and romantic story but nothing could be more wrong. The new circumstances and problems will block the chances for a happy future. But to know what will happen, you should watch this movie as fast as possible.

                                                             ABOUT THE MOVIE

I found that movie on YouTube some months ago and without reading of description I decided to watch. And it was a good decision. This movie isn't awesome only becaus of plot. The best elements of that are the smart dialogues, beautiful pictures, music and director's idea of showing love story.

The basic idea was to show images from the past and present of two people in a certain sequence. The moments from childhood pierce the present reality what makes the movie more attractive and original. Also the actors are perfect in their roles. Their playing is emotional and catches the hardest hearts (it was the first movie which made me cry ;)).


I mentioned the music and I want to reccomend three songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrPhrv-RL-k
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC8J8cDLzCQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaEaZfoO_EQ

                                                            

                                                           THE BEST QUOTES

Have you ever heard someone who went to Istanbul to live and returned to Ankara?

For someone from Ankara, Istanbul is like somebody else's baby. You like it when it smiles and you want to run away when it cries.

Remember what I said to you? I said that your boundaries were set, that you couldn’t step beyond them. But I was missing the point, son. The point isn’t those set boundaries. The point is how you fill the space within those boundaries. Whatever things, whichever people give meaning to your life.. don’t ever abandon them. 

ENJOY LIFE, LOVE AND WATCHING!

"Issız Adam"

"Ada, I've been through a lot. I've wasted a lot of things. Myself, life, everything. I won't get improved. I'm living with a virus in my veins. I don't want to be a part of anybody's life. And i don't want anybody to be a part of my life. This is me. This is who i was, this is who i'm going to be. There is no reason for this, so don't look for any. I wish there was, I wish I knew that reason and could change it. But I want you to know this: You were the most beautiful thing in my life. Do not forget that."

Yesterday I watched an awesome movie. Really awesome. I think some of you will not see anything special in this movie but for me it was an amazing pleasure. Maybe because I watched it with the most important person in my life. I think the sense of watching the love movies is watching them with somebody. Definitely NOT ALONE! 

So...

"Issız Adam" (meaning - Abandoned man):

• English title: "Alone"
• Year: 2008
• Director and writer: Çağan Irmak
• Cast: Cemal Hünal as Alper and  Melis Birkan as Ada
• Place: Istanbul
• Time: Present time
• Soundtrack:  

                
    1. Anlamazdın - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAqmzUrdtL0

    2. Une belle histoire - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiPSnQY_ja4

    3. Yalnız Adam - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyFqLvUB-1U 

    4. Yalnızım Ben - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWpPBhmK-E0

    5. Bana Yalan Söylediler - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IoY36Oq289Y         
    6. Tutsana Ellerimi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U1Jypk_LEQ

    7. Sen Ordaydın - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hKgZ4JxlWI

    8. Sen Dizime Yattın - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G7SNHgF_GE

    9. Elimi Tut - müziği - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzg2B-1ahms

  10. İlk Sevişme - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZGqls01hA0

  11. Beyoğlu - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg-UGDhb4Go

You don't have to believe in endless love to watch this movie. This movie doesn't show happiness. Opposite, shows that everything what is good and beautiful ends fast. 

Alper is a chef at his own restaurant in Istanbul. His love is luxury. He always eats best meals, meets women for one night and has a beautiful apartment. He spends a lot of money on vinyl discs. But he's not happy. Initially he doesn't see his life is empty and meaningless. Everything changes one day, when he meets Ada - young and beautiful girl - in a second-hand book shop. Girl is younger than him and she has own business too. She designes party costumes for kids in her small shop. Her love are old books in which she searches the traces of other people - phone numbers, bills, smells. Their lifes are completely different. 

Ada changes everything in his life. He understands that his past didn't make a sense. Both of them fell in love and they feel something what they have never felt before. Firstly, Alper tries to treat Ada like other women before but soon he realizes it's something different. Ada becomes his teacher. She shows him what love is. 

They love to be together, spend time together and talk. Soon things begin to go wrong. Alper's mum comes Istanbul for cousin's wedding. She meets Ada and is happy because her son found a good girl. She asks Ada not to leave Alper and says Alper not to let Ada go. Then something breaks. Alper feels he loses his freedom and habits also he can't stand how serious their relationship is. Consequently he leaves Ada. Girl is shocked but she tells him she knew that before. Alper thinks he will be happy then... 

Four years later they meet again by chance. Ada tells Alper she has husband and daughter and now they live in London. Alper says he meets a girl. But he lies. Ada lies too. They are lonely still but both know they can't be together again. Both of them dream of different ending but they understand it will never happen. 



I love this movie. Today I watched it again and I think it wasn't last time. Good Turkish cinema, not as stupid as some American comedies. And one more thing, I'd like to have the same collection of old turkish music like the director of this movie has!

"No matter how far someone is but just the trust and love you have for him makes you remember."

And here is a link to movie with English subs:  http://vimeo.com/55290830

“ - Give him a room...”

Every country and every society create own culture. But culture is not only food or tradition or history. It's also everything what a man (a representative of his society) can make as a knowledge about his point of view and everyday life. Today I want to recommend one Turkish movie I watched 3 days ago but still I'm impressed. Enjoy!

An intelligent combination of laughter and tears in "Babam ve Oğlum" (My father and my son) - the movie directed in 2005 by Çagan Irmak. Protest, love, loneliness, problems, death - only few words to describe a plot but so important words! The director takes us to 1980, the time of Turkish coup d'état. 

PLOT

Sadık's father, Huseyin, (Çetin Tekindor) tries to force him to study Agricultural Engineering and marry a girl from their village but boy doesn't want that kind of life. Father's plan is clear - he needs somebody to menage his farm. Unfortunatelly, Sadık's brother is mentally ill and has own family so father can't count on him. Sadık (Fikret Kuşkan) doesn't want to give up  his dreams and in the 70's he leaves a small village and goes to study journalism at Istanbul University. 

But jail is only a small part of his life and the smallest trouble he has ever had. The worst day of his life will be September 12, 1980, then he will lose his beloved wife. In the early hours of that day she starts having contractions but couple can't find anyone who could take them to hospital. The woman births son (Deniz) in a park, near the home but she bleeds. 

After this tragedy, Sadık goes to jail because of his political supporting for the left. The man, beaten and tortured there, is released after 3 years. Again life isn't easy because some time after he learns he will die soon. The illness becomes a reason for coming back hometown and giving his son chances for normal life without father. 

The man prepares Deniz (Ege Tanman) for the hard situation and complicated relations with grandfather. The clever boy who falls in love with the comics books and lives in a world of imagination becomes a favourite of all family. Actually, Deniz's imagination world is some fake. I can understand that if I say that it was kid's world and his point of view. However, main problem is still unsolved. 

What will happen in village? I'll not say. You have to watch. Great movie, great music, great plot which will make you smile and cry. This is really good movie because of one reason more. You can learn a lot about Turkish culture and family. You can realize it's so different but same so similar to your family - not important from where you are. You can watch it here (version with English subtitles):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2287383019795315085

Babam ve Oğlum, 2005, Turkey