A Tale of Three Sisters
- sombre
- slow-burn
- intimate
Sombre, slow-burn, gentle drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents for different reasons, they are sent back to their father's house in their poor village. Deprived of their dreams of a better life, they try to hold on to each other.
Our read · A Tale of Three Sisters (2019) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, grounded drama entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
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