Tribute to Reha Erdem 2012 / Hayat var / Turkey, Bulgaria, Greece 2008
A distilled blend of the director’s thematic and stylistic trademarks, My Only Sunshine is a dreamy film about harsh realities. One of the most beautiful odes to the Bosphorus, the work unfolds the tale of 14-year-old Hayat who lives on a creek with her fisherman-smuggler father and sick grandfather.
A distilled blend of Erdem’s thematic and stylistic trademarks, My Only Sunshine is a dreamy film about harsh realities. One of the most beautiful odes to the Bosphorus, the work unfolds the tale of 14-year-old Hayat, a member of an old Istanbul family who lives with her fisherman-smuggler father and sick grandfather. Like its characters (or "figures”), the film maintains a stylistic distance while nurturing a mystery. In contrast, emotions sometimes burst through the arabesque soundtrack. Once the best friend of the new "immigrant villager to the big city” and, concurrently, a cultural danger in the eyes of the Turkish state, arabesque (Turkey’s Arab-influenced music genre) is the music of self-destruction, love, and rebellion against fate in a loveless world. Such is Hayat’s world, but with poetically edited images and sounds, and camerawork that dotes on the Bosphorus, My Only Sunshine is romantic enough in itself.
121 min / Color, 35 mm
Director Reha Erdem
/ Screenplay Reha Erdem
/ Dir. of Photography Florent Herry
/ Music Orhan Gencebay
/ Editor Reha Erdem
/ Producer Ömer Atay
/ Production Atlantik Film
/ Cast Elit Işcan, Erdal Beşikçioğlu, Levend Yilmaz
/ Contact Atlantik Film
www: www.myonlysunshine.com.tr
Atlantik Film
Üst Zeren sokak No:2, 1. Levent, 343 30, Istanbul
Turkey
Phone: + 90 212 278 361 1
Fax: + 90 212 278 197 1
E-mail: [email protected]
Claudine Avetyan
Producer
Reha Erdem
Film Director, Film Director
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