Gegen die Wand (2004) answers,corresponds in the highest degree to my expectations from a movie.This is how art,stripped of ballast and of concessions,can look.It is encouraging that movies so accomplished are made nowadays.
Gegen die Wand (2004) has a chorus that frames the action's peaks.What is the director's rapport with the Turkish music that he uses?If it is not a naive use,it is not an ironical one,either.I would say that it is an affectionate rapport,a recourse to a simple,cherished and effective artistic shape;I think this is how Faith Akin uses the Turkish folk music:as a shape of the heart,a shape refined by time;so,his approach is cultured and affectionate and on a highly refined level.It is a great creator's approach of the great culture that he belongs to.
Cahit is a Turkish guy and German citizen that earns his living by picking garbage;he was born in Turkey,but works in Germany,as a German citizen,and is not very interested in his Turkish compatriots,on the contrary,he resents all the ethnic stuff;as he tries to end his life,Cahit meets in the clinic a beautiful and very young Turkish girl that asks his hand.What follows is one of the most thrilling love stories.
Faith Akin seizes the richness and the infinity of the life's poetry.He reaches the level of a perennial realism and of an astounding concreteness,within the parameters of a highly differentiated style.The photography is of a lavish beauty.There are sex and violence.
Birol Ünel is one of the most interesting actors of today.He has the intelligence and charm and that note of cool that Rourke had in the '80s;his range as an actor is very wide,and he constantly offers an intensity of acting seldom seen in the movies.This joy of acting,this keen intelligence,this incisive force are what Birol Ünel brings in Faith Akin's film.
There are few movies that I swallow with such an appetite.Perennial realism,the huge fascination of life,exceptional actors (Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli,Catrin Striebeck,Meltem Cumbul).The content is so abundant and overwhelming.A first-class example of artistic dignity and integrity.
Gegen die Wand (2004) has a chorus that frames the action's peaks.What is the director's rapport with the Turkish music that he uses?If it is not a naive use,it is not an ironical one,either.I would say that it is an affectionate rapport,a recourse to a simple,cherished and effective artistic shape;I think this is how Faith Akin uses the Turkish folk music:as a shape of the heart,a shape refined by time;so,his approach is cultured and affectionate and on a highly refined level.It is a great creator's approach of the great culture that he belongs to.
Cahit is a Turkish guy and German citizen that earns his living by picking garbage;he was born in Turkey,but works in Germany,as a German citizen,and is not very interested in his Turkish compatriots,on the contrary,he resents all the ethnic stuff;as he tries to end his life,Cahit meets in the clinic a beautiful and very young Turkish girl that asks his hand.What follows is one of the most thrilling love stories.
Faith Akin seizes the richness and the infinity of the life's poetry.He reaches the level of a perennial realism and of an astounding concreteness,within the parameters of a highly differentiated style.The photography is of a lavish beauty.There are sex and violence.
Birol Ünel is one of the most interesting actors of today.He has the intelligence and charm and that note of cool that Rourke had in the '80s;his range as an actor is very wide,and he constantly offers an intensity of acting seldom seen in the movies.This joy of acting,this keen intelligence,this incisive force are what Birol Ünel brings in Faith Akin's film.
There are few movies that I swallow with such an appetite.Perennial realism,the huge fascination of life,exceptional actors (Birol Ünel, Sibel Kekilli,Catrin Striebeck,Meltem Cumbul).The content is so abundant and overwhelming.A first-class example of artistic dignity and integrity.