Also entering the fight for the Crystal Globe today is Turkish director Kıvanç Sezer, who after having participated in the Main Competition of the 51st KVIFF with his film My Father's Wings, has come to the festival with the second part of his trilogy, entitled La Belle Indifference. The work deals with the existential crisis and emptiness of life after losing work. The film's main character is an ordinary manager at a pharmaceutical company that starts approaching the grim reality of his crisis with almost absurd apathy.
Despite the fact that the two parts of the trilogy could be categorized in different genres (My Father's Wings is a social drama about inequality, while La Belle Indifference has more elements of an absurdist comedy), in the director's words both works aim to reveal the "very strong, universal yet hidden ties between work, consumers and capitalists".
After losing his job, the main character, manager Onur, has a hard time coming to terms with the loss of routine and rules that were such an integral part of his life. "Onur considers himself the breadwinner of the household. As soon as he loses this role, he becomes a pitiful figure. Those eight months without work are a kind of coming-of-age story for him," says the Turkish director. Sezer attempts to describe what an irreplaceable role work plays in our lives in the current system, what it means for us, how much it occupies us and how we must learn to live again without it.
