{"id":739,"date":"2013-01-06T22:06:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-06T22:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=739"},"modified":"2015-08-31T13:36:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T13:36:51","slug":"night-of-silence-lal-gece-thu-20-march-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2013\/01\/night-of-silence-lal-gece-thu-20-march-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"NIGHT OF SILENCE (LAL GECE), Thu 20 March, 8pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The wedding night of an arranged marriage between a beautiful young girl and a middle-aged man reaches a shattering conclusion.\u00a0 Unforgettable cinema with two brilliant performances at its heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Turkey, 2012.\u00a0 Language: Turkish.\u00a0 92 minutes.\u00a0 Cert: CLUB. \u00a0Director: Reis \u00c7elik. \u00a0Starring: lyas Salman, Dilan Aks\u00fct, May eker Y\u00fccel, Sabri Tutal, Sercan Demirkaya, Ahmet Nuri Ayd\u0131n<\/p>\n<p><em>Read more:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The title is a misnomer. When a lovely young girl is married off to a pockmarked middle-aged man, she \u2013 with a nod to 1,001 Nights heroine Scheherazade \u2013 changes the subject and pouts and does everything she can to delay consummation.<\/p>\n<p>Reis \u00c7elik\u2019s sad, lovely standoff (a Crystal Bear winner at Berlin) starts out with the sublime tableaux and stately pacing we\u2019ve come to expect of the Anatolian\u2019s oeuvre before retreating into the bedroom for a claustrophobic two-step. First-person shots add to the sense that the bridal chamber is merely a prettified tomb. Recited tales \u2013 one mythical and one historical \u2013 remind us that the likelihood of the girl ever seeing her family again rests somewhere close to zero.<\/p>\n<p>This is a political union. The groom repeatedly dismisses the gunfire outside as stag- party japes, yet as he does so, he reaches for a pistol.<\/p>\n<p>Slyly, both lens and narrative shift allegiances to reveal that the marriage is just as prescriptive for the groom. A final impassioned monologue \u2013 \u201cWhat I am except for a clown?\u201d \u2013 heralds an unexpected denouement. &#8211; <em>Tara Brady, The Irish Times \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><em>Winner &#8211; Crystal Bear, Berlin Film Festival 2012<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2013\/jun\/27\/night-of-silence-review\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read The Guardian review.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bccoXHP4Hs4?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wedding night of an arranged marriage between a beautiful young girl and a middle-aged man reaches a shattering conclusion.\u00a0 Unforgettable cinema with two brilliant performances at its heart. Turkey,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}