Gizli Yüz

Omer Kavur's film, Gizli Yuz (The Hidden Face), is based upon the scenario of Orhan Pamuk. The film tells, in fact, the concept of time, and the sub-concepts of it. The human, love, the unreachable, within time. Orhan Pamuk is known about his keen observations and obsessions about the very contradiction between the East and West. The Eastern and Western civilisations were always different in the perception of time, individual, god and related matters. nevertheless, both the scenario and the film are too vague about what they want to tell. The pictures are of inferior quality, too touristic, orientalist, to say, and the words -not dialogues, actually, for they don't develop in the sense of dialogues- are harmingly artistical (!) What saves this film being a kitsch is the good acting of Rutkay Aziz and Zuhal Olcay, two prominent theatre players of Turkey.