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Belonging

Belonging

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Status

Released

Release Date

Feb 7, 2019

Runtime

1h 11m

Genres

Crime, Drama

User Score

64%

Original Title

Aidiyet

Production Companies

Fol Film, Kuyu Film

Director

Burak Çevik

Description

A murder investigation is flipped inside out in Burak Çevik's second feature, a spellbinding and surprising work that questions whether we can ever truly understand criminal motives. We begin in the present as an unseen narrator recounts the assassination of his lover's disapproving mother, accompanied by hauntingly vacant images of urban alienation and garish city lights; we then flash back to witness the first encounter between the lovers-turned-accomplices, their mutual attraction and world-weariness emerging across a sleepless night and morning after. Çevik imbues the proceedings with a stylistic confidence and willingness to bend the conventions of cinematic form to arrive at a complex, gripping double meditation on love and death.