Five orphan girls in contemporary Turkey are enjoying their lively childhood, causing anxiety to the family that raise them through innocent games with boys of the same age. The scandal causes the family to resort to extreme measures to guard them and start arranging marriages.
A beautiful and painful film about childhood and its interruption in a bad context for women. Childhood is revealed in all its purity and complete lack of adult negativity. The sudden imprisonment provokes different reactions from the 5 types of child-women, all perfectly adequate and credible, very well suited to the actual human typologies of everyday life. The story is heartbreaking and possibly even more heartbreaking when the thought stops at those women who have accepted their fate as normality and duty towards family, tradition and society and have given up what defines them as their own persona.
The direction is very fluid, with the attention wonderfully focused on the five extremely natural girls who were very well suited for their roles, and it sometimes reminds the viewer of Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides.
Directed by: Deniz Gamze Ergüven
Featuring: Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu, Elit Iscan, Ilayda Akdogan, Nihal G. Koldas, Ayberk Pekcan
Rating: 8/10
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