Turkish director Burak Çevik’s fifth feature asks a perennial question (is there politics without violence?) and answers rather grimly, showing how in Turkey, circa the late 1970s (at least), there was no room for non-violent approaches. Nothing in Its Place, shown as part of the Proxima Competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, is visually impressive, affective, and fittingly bleak in the ways it handles ethical conundrums begetting extremism. The distorted idea of belonging its title alludes to also has a rather utopian streak: if nothing is in its place, then chaos reigns; but chaos, defined against order, can also carve space for freedom.
Order is a concept not only co-opted by fascist regimes everywhere, but also weaponized. The film begins with a close-up of a black-and-white TV screen where a regular broadcast informs the viewer of the (ideologically supervised) news, followed by an ode to said order,...
Order is a concept not only co-opted by fascist regimes everywhere, but also weaponized. The film begins with a close-up of a black-and-white TV screen where a regular broadcast informs the viewer of the (ideologically supervised) news, followed by an ode to said order,...
- 7/23/2024
- by Savina Petkova
- The Film Stage
The film is inspired by one of Turkey’s most bloody political massacres, which took place in 1978.
Turkish filmmaker and Berlinale regular Burak Cevik has completed shooting his nextt film Nothing In Its Place, a drama that focuses on one of Turkey’s most bloody political massacres.
Cevik’s The Pillar Of Salt (2018), Belonging (2019) and Forms Of Forgetting (2023) each premiered in the Berlinale Forum.
Inspired by a true story, Nothing In Its Place follows a group of five leftist youths in 1978 who believed in an unarmed socialist revolution. In the middle of the night, two right-wing youths raid their meeting and decide to kill them.
Turkish filmmaker and Berlinale regular Burak Cevik has completed shooting his nextt film Nothing In Its Place, a drama that focuses on one of Turkey’s most bloody political massacres.
Cevik’s The Pillar Of Salt (2018), Belonging (2019) and Forms Of Forgetting (2023) each premiered in the Berlinale Forum.
Inspired by a true story, Nothing In Its Place follows a group of five leftist youths in 1978 who believed in an unarmed socialist revolution. In the middle of the night, two right-wing youths raid their meeting and decide to kill them.
- 9/28/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
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