philipposathina

I am an Almodovar's fan and of course i have seen all his films so far. To me his best one is "Volver", and i think that Penelope in that one, had her best acting ever. "Madres paralelas", is, like all his films, really exciting to watch. It was near its ending though that i started wondering what i was really watching. The film starts with a certain story, continues with another one, and ends up with the one it started. Some viewers may have found this interesting and smart, to me it seemed quite absurd though. Anyway, Almodovar is a brilliant director and one can hardly reject any of his films, this one included, nevertheless a film storyline should by definition be more concrete that the one in this film and shouldn't go off course that much. Others may see it as another Almodovar's geniousity, i found it rather awkward.

I had really given up on any hope that a good straightforward and decent thriller movie was still possible to watch in our days. I was mistaken and i am very glad about it. "Alone" is not a film that we have not already watched under a different title, casting, director, production etc etc. You see, its story line seems predictable from the very beginning: A woman alone on the road and the psycho who lies in ambush round its next turn. Remember "the Hitcher"? Well, not quite but something similar to this seems to be the beginning of this film. And what happens then we have already and most certainly seen on screen before. I cannot recall the titles, but i clearly remember another film, or other films, where the victim of the abduction manages to escape etc etc. Nevertheless there are some elements that clearly distinguish this "escape" from "others in the past" and overall make the struggle of this film's victim for surviving this very "psycho's" hunt, a most interesting and thrilling story to watch. For production, direction, acting, photography, of course script and ,last but not least, an awesome and imposing music score make a clear difference to trivial nonsense of this genre we have recently seen. Good job guys, thank you!!!

Asli is a professionally ambitious young woman. And a new mother! She lives with her husband and her newborn daughter in a gorgeous apartment in a very high profile suburb of Istanbul. Her relationship with the young, simple and of a lower class origin woman and new mother as well who does the babysitting for her baby while she goes for her career, will help her cope and reconciliate with her own past as an abadoned child and her present as a mother herself.

A deeply moving masterpiece is the least i can say to describe the incredible emotional power of this film of the great Semih Kaplanoglu. In an unbelievable magical way the story unfolds the sentimental process within Asli through the incidents that occur between her, the babysitter and the baby itself which make her gradually see that things are not black and white and that understanding should prevail when it comes to judging about things around motherhood, a task that as it's finally clear to her, takes an auful lot of commitment and sacrifice.

The story flows in a most simple and unpretentious way, everything is portraited as convincing as in a documentary. It does not demand or tries to provoke any tears, yet the shocks and waves of emotion it brings are enormous just because of this. In other words, unlike most drama films "Baglilik Asli" just tells a simple story and let tears roll down the face just because this simple story is as deeply, sincerely and purely human as it gets!