Yozgat Blues
- sombre
- measured
- intimate
Sombre, measured, measured drama / music, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
How every film is hand-scored →Sabri, a barber in Yozgat - a very small city in the middle of Anatolia - has an emotional breakdown when he runs into Yavuz and Neşe, who come to the town to sing in a small music hall-bar. This will also affect Neşe and Yavuz. None of their desires will be how they want them to be.
Our read · Yozgat Blues (2013) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · music · provincial entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
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The shape of Yozgat Blues
What watching it is actually like.
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