Clair Obscur

2016 [TURKISH]

Drama

8
IMDb Rating 6.4/10 10 3082 3.1K

small town woman director unhappy marriage psychodrama turkish repressed sexuality

Plot summary

Şehnaz, a young female psychiatrist from Istanbul, starts mandatory duty in a provincial town. Back in the city, she maintains a marriage that looks flawless on the outside. Elmas, a young woman on the verge of breakdown, opens a new path in her.

Director

Yesim Ustaoglu Photo
Yesim Ustaoglu

Top cast

Ahmet Rifat Sungar Photo
Ahmet Rifat Sungar as Ögretmen
Metin Akdülger Photo
Metin Akdülger as Mimar
Mehmet Kurtulus Photo
Mehmet Kurtulus as Cem
Funda Eryigit Photo
Funda Eryigit as Sehnaz
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917.6 MB
1280*536
Turkish 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 3
1.66 GB
1920*804
Turkish 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
25 fps
1 hr 39 min
Seeds 8

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by AJ_McAninch 5 / 10

Could have been . . .

The cast is fine; the lead actresses are wonderful, but the narrative is a garbled mess that never clears up, including a disturbingly violent scene, followed by an ending poorly shot in glaring sun, that leaves us staring at. . . . Nothing. It was as if they all just quit. The blame for the failure of this film with so much potential belongs completely on both writer and director. They had the chance to tell parallel stories of marital rape and psychiatric treatment-with both women working together toward healing-and they blew it. The alleged psychiatric therapy is ridiculous, there are multiple filler scenes going nowhere, and nothing is ever fully clear or resolved. The title, it turns out, is totally apt, but not for the reason the makers intended. This could have been a superb and important film; instead it limped to a flat closure and became a disappointing time waster. Still, if the viewer can handle that, the lead actresses are both deeply moving. I am glad I saw their performances, but they deserved a better film.
Reviewed by rosgemchar 5 / 10

Cut off

Reviewed by timucin_savas 7 / 10

Interesting atmosphere

The director is walking a thin line here and hardly avoids falling into the orientalism trap. Difficult to master this balance though, because this is not Tanna. Both female leads really good, male actors are a couple steps behind. This part of the country is similar to Northern Europe, rain and storm and dark clouds, giant waves hammering the beach. If there was any intention of symbolism here, it wasn't well placed though.Both leading characters were developed well, but we are so used to TV series these days one wishes we should have learnt more about them. Would they have had different lives if they had kids?
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