Dry Summer (1963)
(Susuz Yaz)
Country: TUR
Technical: bw/1.37:1 90m
Director: Metin Erksan
Cast: Erol Tas, Hülya Koçyigit, Ulvi Dogan
Synopsis:
A family tragedy of biblical proportions ensues when the elder of two brothers refuses neighbouring farmers the water from his land.
Review:
Erksan's undoubted eye for composition, and powerful Marxist vision of a countryside where food producers work together under the supportive eye of a just legal system, come up against his shortcomings as a storyteller-dramatist. Violent confrontations seem contrived and dialogue is ropey, though the performances are fine. The theme of avarice is joined by that of sexual frustration, as Tas lusts after his brother's bride from the start, and she in turn pines for Dogan (a dead ringer for Gerard Butler). All of which leads to some risible scenes of Koçyigit embracing telegraph poles and the like, and Tas a sofa cushion, while the scenes of the latter spying through the partition to her bedroom as she undresses, and gazing up her skirts as she scales ladders and trees, are daring for their time.
(Susuz Yaz)
Country: TUR
Technical: bw/1.37:1 90m
Director: Metin Erksan
Cast: Erol Tas, Hülya Koçyigit, Ulvi Dogan
Synopsis:
A family tragedy of biblical proportions ensues when the elder of two brothers refuses neighbouring farmers the water from his land.
Review:
Erksan's undoubted eye for composition, and powerful Marxist vision of a countryside where food producers work together under the supportive eye of a just legal system, come up against his shortcomings as a storyteller-dramatist. Violent confrontations seem contrived and dialogue is ropey, though the performances are fine. The theme of avarice is joined by that of sexual frustration, as Tas lusts after his brother's bride from the start, and she in turn pines for Dogan (a dead ringer for Gerard Butler). All of which leads to some risible scenes of Koçyigit embracing telegraph poles and the like, and Tas a sofa cushion, while the scenes of the latter spying through the partition to her bedroom as she undresses, and gazing up her skirts as she scales ladders and trees, are daring for their time.
(Susuz Yaz)
Country: TUR
Technical: bw/1.37:1 90m
Director: Metin Erksan
Cast: Erol Tas, Hülya Koçyigit, Ulvi Dogan
Synopsis:
A family tragedy of biblical proportions ensues when the elder of two brothers refuses neighbouring farmers the water from his land.
Review:
Erksan's undoubted eye for composition, and powerful Marxist vision of a countryside where food producers work together under the supportive eye of a just legal system, come up against his shortcomings as a storyteller-dramatist. Violent confrontations seem contrived and dialogue is ropey, though the performances are fine. The theme of avarice is joined by that of sexual frustration, as Tas lusts after his brother's bride from the start, and she in turn pines for Dogan (a dead ringer for Gerard Butler). All of which leads to some risible scenes of Koçyigit embracing telegraph poles and the like, and Tas a sofa cushion, while the scenes of the latter spying through the partition to her bedroom as she undresses, and gazing up her skirts as she scales ladders and trees, are daring for their time.