YELLOW LETTERS
Type: intellectual-political drama
Direction: Ilker Çatak. With Yusuf Angûn, Emre Bakar, Ôzgü Namal, Tansu Biçer, Ipek Bilgin, Leyla Smyrna Cabas, Kerem Can, Aziz Çapkurt
In a Türkiye that looks towards Europe (a series of signs remind us of this which also reveal how the film was shot, for obvious reasons, in Germany), Ilker Çatak focuses on the relationship between a theater writer and his actress wife, bringing to light the hidden contradictions.
To ruin their professional rewards – he writes the lyrics that she successfully performs on stage – they arrive the yellow letters (those in the title) with which the authorities block the premiere of his show and suspend his university teachingeven taking him before a judge.
Özgü Namal and Tansu Biçer in a scene from “Yellow Letters”.
And in the meantime the teenage daughter cannot tolerate limits on her freedom, while his wife receives the proposal to act in a soap opera and discovers that television isn’t so bad. Definitely too much for the man of the house who sees his paternal authority in crisis but also the intellectual power he thought he could exercise over his wife.
And as in the previous one The teachers’ loungeÇatak knows how to unmask the retrograde (and chauvinist) education that hides behind declarations of principle, especially of those who believe they are “progressive”.
For those who want to reflect on male contradictions.
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