Le Festival des troubadours

I don't see any point in this movie . Even a twelve year old could've come up with this story . There is no story . If you like meaningless road trips this movie is for you .complete waste of time . I fall asleep during the movie . I wish I never saw this movie or I slept thru the all movie .Kivanc has great reputation he just needs to stop accepting extremely cheap projects like this pathetic scenario . This movie leaves you hanging as if you never invested time to find out what's going to happen .cheap movie cheap ending cheap everything .there is just a nice car and some view . 5.9 overal rating is too much for this .

What a beautiful movie I have just watched! It was unbelievably slow but also unbelievably beautiful...

Nothing exciting is happening in this movie. Most of the time, you will be just watching two main characters, a father and his 39-year old son, driving in a car through eastern Turkey and barely speaking to each other. Minimum actions and minimum words... This movie is not entertaining at all ... this movie is more like a much needed nap after a busy day at work ... it is like a sip of fresh spring water on a long hike... Breathtaking scenery of eastern Turkey and genuine honest emotions delivered by Kivanc Tatlitug and Settar Tanriogen - that is what will make your heart melt.

Both leading actors delivered outstanding performances but Kivanc is the one who simply blew my mind. How an actor not only is able to share such strong beautiful emotions with the audience but also does it so sincerely and naturally that makes me truly empathize with this lost little (39-year old) boy and makes me feel his pain as it is my own! Empathy... these feelings often get lost in the modern hi-tech world. Hats off to Kivanc for bringing them back! I hope to see more of him in the future in movies like this one.

This movie was a nice ending to my busy holiday weekend. It is a movie about forgiveness... about forgiving and being forgiven. We need more movies like this one in our fast paced life - movies that are unbelievably slow but also unbelievably beautiful... movies that gently remind us that life itself is unbelievably short but also unbelievably beautiful and there is absolutely no room for hard feelings in it, no matter how hard we try to keep them there.

I know that I will watch this movie again.

I'm not that much into turkish movies, but when I saw the trailer on Netflix, an old guy holding a Saz in his hands had to watch it, while my father was also Saz teacher. The movie is a nice reflection of anger and love combined, it touches you, while you sometimes feels the same feeling's against your loved ones. Definitely worth watching, the acting is GREAT, the cinematography is great!! Kivanc is really a great actor, it was beyond my expectations. A journey that also shows you the eastern parts of Turkey, the hospitality of the people living there, culture, traditions... the love for the Saz, which is really a big part of the culture, especially in the middle eastern part on turkey...

It is great that story is not in Isranbul but in Anatolia expressing a real cultural thema this timeunlike previous netflix Turkish movies. I find the intention of the movie good and really wanted to enjoy it. However there is a big lack of story telling and it was boring from the beginning to the end. It is kind of a road movie but you hardly get to know places they been to or peaple they met. Characters are all superficial. Kivanç and Settar are both great actors and their skills make the movie watchable, otherwise story was told in a boring way with serious issues on editing. I liked the cinematography though.

Very unexpected gem of a piece. Festival of Troubadours. You see a part of Turkey that is not the glitzy Istanbul or Bodrum or Izmir, etc. Some scenes reminded me of surreal locations in Gozu of Takashi Miike. It has a strange therapeutic feel to it this movie, gets you into a nihilistic mood, but still with a dash of hope somehow. Bare mountains and at times green valleys with half dried out river streams add to the melancholy. A slow, 90min ride of a son and a dying troubadour dad suddenly showing up after 25 years of disappearance. Lost love, lives and nothing but a subtle ode to Asik Veysel and maybe real Turkish spirit of innocence long lost these days.