The Nightly Song of the Travellers
Yolcularin Gece Sarkisi
85 minutes, 2006
Sun. Oct 8, 1:30PM, Rafael
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In Turkish with English subtitles • Taking inspiration from fellow countryman Abbas Kiarostami's cinema of poetic ruralism, filmmaker Chapour Haghighat has crafted a debut feature, based on his own novel, that discovers stunning beauty in the small moments of everyday life. Just released from prison, a Turkish tailor and his precocious prepubscent companion set out to find the tailor's idyllic birthplace. A slight problem emerges, however: The village seems to have vanished into thin air, and no one has ever heard of the mythic hamlet. Like many stories that take place on the long and winding road home, Haghighat's film gives equal time to the people the duo meet along the way: bickering couples, irate fortune tellers, trash-talking mourners, mill workers, shopkeepers, cattle wranglers and the ordinary people who make up Middle Eastern society. As the epiphanic last shot reveals, the journey itself may be more important than where you hang your hat at the day's end. — D. Fear
Director: Chapour Haghighat
Producer: Perspectives Nomades
Screenwriter: Chapour Haghighat
Cinematographer: Shahriar Assadi
Editor: Sophie Brunet
Cast: Engin Gunay, Kuzey Ozdogan, Ulku Ulker
Print Source:
Perspectives Nomades
95 av. du General Leclerc
Paris, 75014
France
Tel: +33 1 45 43 23 23
