A barber working in Istanbul longs to be ‘both here and far, far away’. And one day, without warning, he takes himself off and disappears abruptly into the great far away. The barber settles in a far-flung village, and as chance would have it the one-time local barber, Jingle Nuri, vanished from the place years ago. The village is in the hands of the mukhtar, the elected local chief. So the new barber rents his shop and opens the doors for business. The village is not, however, the innocent village. The mukhtar finds himself dealing with one mysterious disappearance after another. Güvercin, the prettiest girl in the village, is now missing without trace. The mukhtar and his only armed man, the village guard, set about questioning everyone in the village. The mukhtar suspects Cennet’s son more than anyone else. And he beats the gentle dreamer with the soul of a poet to a pulp as he cross-examines him – which causes the boy to lose his mind.The mukhtar and the guard spread terror through the village, but still they fail to find Güvercin. And Cennet’s son starts drifting through the streets of the village asking, “Why does snow fall, snow?” – even though not a flake of snow has even been known to fall. In despair, the mukhtar seeks the advice of the village sage, Musa Dede, but only to be reminded that the history of the village is full of such secrets, misdemeanours and disappearances… Even more peculiar things start happening. The barber seems content to watch this all from the distance like a dispassionate spectator. (IMDb – Written by Umit Unal)

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Derya (Selma Ergeç) works in a bank’s call center to support her elderly mother. One day her life is suddenly turned upside down as she begins to hear a strange voice whispering to her. The source of the voice is a mystery and it tells her things and facts noone else would know.

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From divimag.co.uk:
A harmless looking middle aged fortune teller (Serra Yılmaz ) arrives at the swanky apartment of bohemian actress Deniz (İrem Altuğ) who lives with her lesbian lover Dr Sema (İdil Fırat). Over a cup of homemade Turkish coffee the fortune teller turns out to be a vengeful grandmother who is seeking justice for the death of her granddaughter. She believes her death occured through the neglect of Dr Sema and a cover up by the hospital prevented a proper investigation. She drugs the actress and when the caretaker (Erdem Akakçe) comes to her rescue and her partner arrives home from her shift they all end up as prisoners at gunpoint.

As the night draws in each character reveals themselves to be someone other than who they present to the world, and we realize that nobody is innocent and that each person has been lying to each other in some way.

Nar is the Turkish word for pomegranate. In the Qur’an the pomegranate represents a symbol of goodness and it is thought that Eve was tempted by a pomegranate not an apple in the Garden of Eden. The pomegranate has been said to have healing powers. Images of the pomegranate being smashed or the seeds being laid out are used as punctuation in the film possibly as a metaphor for the fallibility of human nature and the shattering of our own delusions of perfection.

Director Ümit Ünal is prominent and award-winning in Turkey today. His first feature film, 9 was the Official Turkish Entry in 2003 for the Oscars as Best Foreign Language Film.

In Nar he has made a film in which lesbian central characters are presented in a non-stereotypical yet challenging way. This is no Hollywood coming out story and the lesbians could have easily been cast as a male/female couple in that there are no grand statements about homophobia and anxiety about their sexuality – they just happen to be lesbian. Indeed as the film progresses we see that Deniz is shocked to learn that her “right on/PC” doctor lover is not as charitable as she thought. And we also learn that Dr Sema resents her younger actress lover who she accuses of freeloading off her, while she herself has to deal with the harsh reality of being a woman working in the hostile patriarchal medical system.

Turkey – founded in its contemporary incarnation in 1923 – is the only Muslim country where it is legal to be lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender. However LGBT people still face discrimination and persecution from families and the government. Turkish lesbians face dual discrimination as women, and being queer, and often have to experience what Adrienne Rich coined “compulsory heterosexuality” through forced marriages or “cures”.

There have not been many Turkish films featuring lead lesbian characters. In 1963 Atif Yilmaz, ‘enfant terrible’ of Turkish filmmaking showed two actresses (Suzan Avci and Sevda) French kissing in Iki Gemi Yanyana (Two Ships, Side by Side). He followed that in 1992 with Dus Gezginleri (Walking After Midnight), a film that explored jealousy and rage between two doomed lesbian lovers.

Nar shows that men can make intelligent films about lesbians. However at times the idiosyncratic editing and shooting do not give enough tension for this thriller to have you on the edge of your seat. This was like one of the pomegranates you buy hoping it will be ripe and juicy but Nar is somehow just not sweet enough.

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Scene: A poor neighborhood of Istanbul. A beautiful, young, homeless girl is killed in a brutal and gory murder. Nobody knows where she comes from, although there are many rumors. Six people from the neighborhood are interrogated by the police and the secret history of the neighborhood is thus revealed. 9 is a story about everyday fascism in the lives of ordinary people.

The movie centers entirely around the interrogation of 6 people about the murder of a homeless girl relatively new to their Istanbul neighborhood. The stories told by each of the characters about their community, neighbors and the murder start out innocently, but bit by bit the oniony layers of the rotten story start to be peeled away revealing that nothing is as rosy as the neighbors would like to believe. Clever editing of the ever changing versions of stories by the different characters provides an often humorous, quick paced, entertaining film that in the end leaves you questioning where the facade ends and the truth really begins.
Melissa@Imdb

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