Thursday, May 09, 2013
TURKISH BATH
Today's film is the Belgian
A young gay expat Turk who happens to be gay falls in love with a Belgian boy.
The Turk's family has already arranged a traditional wedding. Nevertheless the young gay Turk takes the new boyfriend with him to meet the promised bride.
There is a lot of cross cultural stuff in this. Almost too much.
Muslim and Non, old style Turk and, interestingly, the more conservative emigres. And of course gay straight. There is even a bit of attention paid to the deeply conservative white coated muslim guys.
The romantic stuff is sweet and hardly R-rated. The muslim stuff is enlightening. The story gets darker as it goes.
Spoiler. There is a "false" ending which turns out to be a violent fantasy. Good thing it didn't last long as I was ready to chuck the DVD at that point.
These films are coming along like they are on an assembly line. At least they are gaining in complexity and interest. The old laugh queen plots seem to be fewer and farther between.
I am glad that I saw it but probably won't look at it again. I bought it accidentally and let the sale consummate. It would be a 3 out of Netflix5.
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