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The Visitor

The Visitor

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Status

Released

Release Date

May 20, 2016

Runtime

2h 7m

Genres

Family, Drama, Mystery

User Score

58%

Original Title

Misafir

Production Companies

Atlanta Film

Director

Mehmet Eryılmaz

Description

Ten years after being thrown out of her parental home, Nur hears that her mother is at death's door. Taking her young daughter with her, Nur hurries back to her father's world to see, and reconcile with her mother before it is too late. While the universal theme of mother-daughter relationships lies at the centre of the film, this is underpinned by an allusive subtext of incest, one of most common but least addressed social problems in Turkey. The individual stories of the family members combine with a sense of hope fuelled by tragedy to paint a portrait of the socially disconnected.