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| "Istanbul’s most electrifying film was Pelin Esmer’s The Play (Oyun), a riveting documentary. Esmer’s film avoids the obvious exploitative pitfalls of her subject matter and instead allows these audacious, charming women to speak for themselves; it’s a credit to her remarkable balancing act that The Play works both as biting, hilarious social criticism and as a tender tale of village life. The makeshift village stage provides Esmer’s heroines with an outlet for their suppressed rage that allows them direct expression. For all its humour, The Play has the energy of a long-gestating scream. It’s also a bracing corrective to the aestheticized melancholia on display in much of the rest of today’s Turkish cinema." | |||
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| "an exciting Turkish documentary by Pelin Esmer.. Pinched in creating a work of theater, without resources but with passion and illusions, [the actresses] see to it that the audiance is involved in the history and laughs with them. Everything is relative, yes, except the good histories, those are universal. " | |||
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| "Wonderful Turkish documentary... An ingenious, entertaining adventure, with a load of social important claim. A delight of documentary that manages to capture the sparkle of some real people. Unforgettable faces that will remain long time in my memory." | |||
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2005 Sinefilm - Pelin Esmer