Süt - milk

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Movie
German title Süt - milk
Original title Süt - Milk
Country of production Turkey
original language Turkish
Publishing year 2008
length 103 minutes
Age rating FSK 12
Rod
Director Semih Kaplanoğlu
script Semih Kaplanoǧlu
production Semih Kaplanoǧlu
music Marc Nouyrigat
camera Özgür Eken
cut François Quiqueré
occupation
chronology

←  Predecessor
Yumurta - Egg

Successor  →
Bal - honey

Süt - Milch (Original title: Süt - Milk ) is a Turkish drama directed by Semih Kaplanoğlu from 2008 . After the film Yumurta - Egg from 2007, it is the second part of the Yusuf trilogy , which Kaplanoǧlu concluded in 2010 with the film Bal - Honey . The trilogy deals with the loss of traditions and the associated impact on people.

action

Yusuf lives with his widowed mother Zehra in a suburb of Tire , a small town in the province of Izmir . They keep a few cows and earn a modest livelihood by selling self-made milk products at the local weekly market. In addition, Yusuf drives an old motorcycle and milk into residential areas and sells his products right at the front door.

After the death of his father, Yusuf is the head of the family - in the traditional conception of his mother. In this role he also has to provide for the family's livelihood. But the 20-year-old gets lost in poetry and daydreams. His mother accuses him of spending the hard-earned money on books and pens instead of looking for a job and neglecting his duties as head of the family. For example, a tire on the motorcycle loses air, but Yusuf does not manage to bring the vehicle that is so important to the family to a workshop for weeks. Yusuf uses his sales trips for a detour that leads him to a mine . There he meets a friend who is also drawn to poetry, but who has realized that he cannot make a living from it, and instead drives in as a miner .

When one day the renowned literary magazine Düster published one of his love poems, he saw his future as a poet confirmed. However, his mother believes that her son finally has a girlfriend whom he is hiding from her. A few days later he received another mail - but this time it was his draft notice that took him on a two-day trip to Izmir to be examined . Meanwhile, his mother lies down with a flat tire and asks for help at a nearby train station. So she meets a helpful, single station master who falls in love with the beautiful woman. After the first day of his drafting, Yusuf meets Semra in a bookstore in Izmir, who is also interested in poetry . They want to meet again the next day, but it remains to be seen whether they will see each other again. During his medical examination the next day, Yusuf found out that he had epilepsy and returned to his village disturbed.

There his previous view of the world begins to shake. His mother also took a liking to the stationmaster. After asking an old woman to read the coffee grounds for her , she meets with him. During his milk deliveries, Yusuf realizes that his mother has neglected her customers and that they are now gradually leaving. On the way back on one of his tours, Yusuf has a seizure and falls on his motorcycle. He is ashamed of the incident, hides it from his mother and roams restlessly around Tire.

The next day he returns home and sees the station master driving away in his car in the village. Yusuf follows him to a lake, where the man disappears into the reeds and goes duck hunting. Yusuf sneaks up to him and wants to throw a large stone at him for a brief moment. But then he abandons his plan and finds a large fish in the water at his feet, which he catches. He proudly brings it home and shows it to his mother. However, she is in the process of plucking a goose with a smile on her face in order to prepare a feast. Yusuf drops the fish and leaves his parents' house.

In the last shot you see Yusuf smoking a cigarette as a miner and looking into the distance. Slowly his eyes fill with tears.

criticism

The film recommendation community moviepilot was of the opinion that Süt was “not a film for everyone”. The viewer has to get involved in the “calm style and the otherness of the images” in order to experience a “haunting portrait of the modernization of a rural society and a melancholy parable of growing up”.

Thorsten Funke from the German-language e-zine Critic.de praises Kaplanoǧlu for his view of "the sometimes tender, sometimes impatient gestures between Yussuf and his mother". But he also points out that the film can appear to be both “visually brave” and “simply boring” to the viewer. This includes the fact that the "meditative calm that arises when looking at it" is sometimes almost overused. Funke comes to the conclusion: “If you manage not to fall asleep with the extremely slow rhythm of the film, you will find a lot in it.” Kaplanoǧlu himself makes it clear that the changes brought about by modernization in Turkey “also affect countless other young people in Turkey ”would be lived through. Some consider this transformation "as a god-sent vehicle to a 'bright future'", while for others "these significant changes" resulted in chaos and strife.

Awards and performances

The film premiered on September 1, 2008 to the International Film Festival of Venice its premiere . Ten days later it was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada and at the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata in Argentina . The film was first seen in Turkey on January 2, 2009.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Release certificate for Süt - Milch . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , November 2009 (PDF; test number: 120 332 K).
  2. ^ Süt - Milch , website of the Filmgazette , accessed on January 5, 2015.
  3. ↑ a b Süt - Modern Turkish Coming-of-Age-Drama , website of the film recommendation community moviepilot.de, accessed on January 5, 2015.
  4. ↑ Critique of Süt on critic.de, accessed on January 5, 2015.
  5. ^ Süt , Trigon-Film website, accessed January 5, 2015.