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The Apple
Why this pick
Like Mustang, it finds defiance and startling liveliness in girls whose world has been severely restricted, using an intimate, unsentimental realism rather than melodrama.
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MOVIE2015 1h 37m TUR
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
The film starts with Lale, the youngest of the five sisters and the protagonist, bidding an emotional farewell at school to her female teacher, who is moving to Istanbul. The sisters decide to walk home instead of taking a van, to enjoy the sunny day. Along the way, they play in the water at the beach with their classmates. For one game, they sit on boys' shoulders and try to knock each other off. When they reach home, their grandmother scolds and hits them for their having this kind of bodily contact with boys and thus "pleasuring themselves" with them. Their uncle Erol is equally furious. From then on, the girls are forbidden from leaving the house, even for school.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Güneş Nezihe Şensoy
Lale
Tuğba Sunguroğlu
Selma
Doğa Zeynep Doğuşlu
Nur
Elit İşcan
Ece
Nihal Koldaş
The Grandmother
Burak Yigit
Yasin