Dear Filmosophers
Another event in
“Exquisite rites of passage story…this calls to mind the
work of Kiarostami, Malick and Davies, and is certainly worthy to stand
comparison. A genuine discovery”
Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Best regards
Simon
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FRI 29 AUGUST 6:15PM
£10
TIMES AND WINDS (BES VAKIT) PLUS Q&A
WITH DIRECTOR REHA ERDEM
On the film's opening night we are
pleased to introduce director Reha Erdem to a Q&A
hosted by film critic Jonathan Romney post-screening at Renoir Cinema.
'In Turkish director Reha
Erdem’s sumptuously composed fourth feature, childhood life in a rural
village on a mountain overlooking the sea is the incubator for an examination
of that pain as experienced through the eyes of three very different children:
Ömer, the son of the local imam; his best friend, Yakup, who’s
enamored with the village schoolteacher; and Yildiz, who is forced to balance
her studies with the household needs of her demanding mother. Their youthful
internal struggles play out against a natural backdrop of passing hours,
changing seasons and rural tradition, stunningly captured in widescreen by
gifted cinematographer Florent Herry. Add to this evocative mix a musical score
culled from the works of Arvo Pärt, and Erdem’s award-winning
feature (the film earned a top prize at last year’s Istanbul Film
Festival) emerges as one of the more thoughtful depictions of childhood and
rural life in recent memory. Featuring a winsome cast of nonprofessional
children, TIMES AND WINDS offers an unforgettable glimpse of rural Islamic life
that is at once timeless, out of time and transfixed—like so many works
of its kind—by the futile search for lost time.'