Well, here's a Brucie bonus.
A couple of weeks ago I missed out on Ozcan Alper's film when it had a week-long stint at wood Green Cineworld.
But thanks to a new website for movie insiders and the press, I have been able to catch up with it.
And I must admit, having seen it, that I am surprised that this filmever made it on to the Cineworld listings.
This is a cerebral and, politically, anti-Turkish film yet the Turkish movies I've seen at Wood Green tend to be either very main stream (mainly comedies) or big historical pro-Turkey flag-wavers (eg Fetih 1453).
I would have expected Gelecek Uzun Surer to either appear at art houses or festivals.
Why? Because it is a slow, thoughtful look at the conflict between Turks and the Kurds which has claimed the life of hundreds of the latter.
It surrounds a trek by a student called Sumru (Gaye Gursel) whose music research leads her to south-east Turkey.
So, asides of the sounds of the elegies she collects, she also hears stories of persecution and, indeed, massacres of the Kurds.
At the same time she begins a friendship with a Kurd movie-maker (Durukan Ordu), who also has a story of how his family have been embroiled in what is effectively civil war.
Lately, I have seen quite a few films about the terrible situation of the Kurds yet, as this movie proves, I am well short of a complete picture.
The tales are horrible and yet captivating.
"What are were doing about this?'', Mrs W inquires. "Nothing,'' I replied. "If it were in Libya, we would have led the bombing,'' I added.
The trouble with this movie is that there are occasional distractions to a rather long-winded story about a young woman's quest for knowledge.
One just about compensates for the other.
Laughs: none
Jumps: none
Vomit: none
Nudity: none
Overall rating: 6/10
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