Monday, December 15, 2008

IFFK 2008 - Day 5 - Morning

Today morning, I watched the film Short Sharp Shock Turk, directed by Faith Akin, part of Akin Retrospective. It is a story of three youths growing up in “dirty” streets of Hamburg. They are fun-loving blokes. Things take a serious turn when one of them decides to join a mafia group, while another decides to live a “normal” peace-loving life. To make thing worse, the person who wants to lead a normal life starts an affair with the girl friend of the mafia-going person. The film portrays how their friendship tragically and fatally breaks up. But, may be because of the fatigue of the last four days, I could not spot anything extraordinary in the film. Not my kinda movie, I guess. But the film shows us a novel way of expressing one’s love: “We just did not fuck. I love you”. That is what the girl tells the bloke when he feels guilty about making love to his best friend’s girl friend.

Next I am going to Dhanya Theatre, where Blindness, directed by Fernando Meirelles, is going to be screened.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

what the girl said is really a bit open but at the same time very simple. it must be a good film

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Anonymous said...

Akın made his debut as director of a full length film as early as 1998 with Short Sharp Shock (Kurz und schmerzlos), which brought him the "Bronze Leopard" award at Locarno International Film Festival, Switzerland and the "Pierrot", the Bavarian Film Award for Best New Director in Munich the same year.

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