Irreconcilable differences: Melis Birkan and Cemal Hunal
10 April 2012
This hugely successful Turkish pot-boiler is about a young man in Istanbul who restlessly visits prostitutes to get his weird kicks — and then falls in love with a girl who is really not into that sort of thing. But he can’t contain his more outlandish sexual desires.
Director Cagan Irmak shoots this with some poise and it’s decently acted by Cemal Hunal and Melis Birkan. For a Turkish commercial movie, it has a bit of audacity about it but cynical Westerners may ask why the man doesn’t just marry her and indulge his more unorthodox sexual hobbies on the side now and then.
Mistresses are, after all, not entirely unknown in Turkey.
Alone (Issiz Adam)
Cert: 15
