8 reasons to watch White as Snow / Ali Ulvi Uyanık
Automatically translated from Turkish. Read the original
2011.05.09
sadibey.com
Recommendation: 8 reasons to watch the 80-minute White as Snow
1- Because, foregrounding the visual, it tells the essence of a story by Sabahattin Ali, one of the most valuable novelists, short story writers and poets of Turkish literature: people wrapped in deprivation and poverty amid harsh natural conditions who cling to hope in spite of everything.
2- Because the story of a single day in the life of a boy, whose father has ended up in prison and whose mother works as a caretaker in the town, and who, in order to look after his two younger siblings, ignores the wind, the cold and the snow and walks a long way to a small roadside rest stop to try to sell ayran, takes place in the mountainous region of Artvin and yet makes you feel it could belong to any part of the world.
3- Because, with the same dignity as its story, it manages to reflect the emotions that make a human being human, emotions that stir up small storms in the soul yet cannot be expressed outwardly.
4- Because it is a special work that every viewer can internalise according to their own perception, drawing different meanings from it and being carried towards different feelings.
5- For the mastery of its dramatic construction.
6- For the striking framing and the ‘natural / wild moments’ in its images, presented in a 2.35:1 aspect ratio.
7- Because it is one of the rare examples in our cinema that proves how functional music can be for a film, and because it contains a musical work capable of touching the hearts of people in every corner of the world.
8- For its exemplary casting and for a direction of actors that strikes just the right tones.
*****
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