The face of an old man. He\u2019s following instructions coming from off camera: \u00bbLook at us for a long time without moving.\u00ab The man is the director\u2019s father, as we learn from the first test shots, which show him posing shirtless with a look of questioning mischief. When he looks straight at us, an intimacy arises that remains throughout the film.
\nThe apartment block in Istanbul where Faruk has lived for decades has been earmarked for demolition. His stubborn resistance at the property management meetings and the crisis he faces as a result of the inevitable forms the starting point of this fictionalised portrayal.<\/p>\n
Filmed on location over the course of seven years, Faruk<\/strong> tells the story of an old man whose plans for a peaceful retirement are thwarted by urban gentrification. Asl\u0131 \u00d6zge uses the depiction of social and cultural changes in Istanbul as a backdrop to explore the connections between people and their environment. How do places leave their mark on us? Faruk has been passing through the streets of his neighbourhood for almost a hundred years. Emre Erkan\u2019s intimate camerawork follows him, and the sound design of ambient urban noise connects us to Faruk\u2019s mind. The film\u2019s nested construction makes its meta-fictional quality immediately apparent. When the director\u2019s on-screen self helps her protagonist with his clothes, we also see the daughter scolding the father. \u00d6zge very deliberately blurs the lines between reality and fiction in an attempt to subtly shift the audience\u2019s perception.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40802,"template":"","movie_year":[755],"movie_genre":[814],"movie_cat":[],"festival":[],"class_list":["post-47810","movie","type-movie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","movie_year-755","movie_genre-hybrider-spielfilm-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n