Directed by: Semih Kaplanoglu
What do you get if you put a movie camera in a forest and record things just as it is? Then just add no sound tracks at all? You get this film.
At first I thought this one could be another pretentious movie about life and stuff (I hate pretentious stuff) but after viewing this I really like it, especially the cinema verite approach and the minimum amount of dialogs and how the director let the visual speak for itself. It makes me wanted to listen to Kitaro or Enya and root for the main character, Yusuf.
The title itself means 'Honey' and tells a story about a boy, a very adorable one, Yusuf (Bora Altas) who lives with his father, Yakup (Erdal Besikcioglu) a honey farmer and his mother Zehra (Tülin Özen) in a remote village in Turkey.
The six year old is having difficulties in school, especially in reading. Having a very close relationship with his father, Yusuf tried so hard to please his father by winning a special badge for good merit from his school.
But things went hard for Yusuf, he still have difficulties reading in the class and in a quick way he became the outsider of his class.
The only thing he like is when he accompany his father into the woods, finding honey. But one thing changed Yusuf's life. His father didn't return from the two day trip. What is happening? Will Yusuf keep struggling with reading and waiting the return of his beloved father?
What amaze me is not only the simplicity and the beauty of the story but how Bora Atlas can act very naturally, for a boy his age. Not only that he is adorable, but he got talent.
I just learned that this Bal (Honey) is the third part of a trilogy of Yusuf, after Yumurta (Egg) and Süt (Milk). I am curious to see the previous two films and to explore Turkish cinema in general since I rarely watch Turkish movies.
What do you get if you put a movie camera in a forest and record things just as it is? Then just add no sound tracks at all? You get this film.
At first I thought this one could be another pretentious movie about life and stuff (I hate pretentious stuff) but after viewing this I really like it, especially the cinema verite approach and the minimum amount of dialogs and how the director let the visual speak for itself. It makes me wanted to listen to Kitaro or Enya and root for the main character, Yusuf.
The title itself means 'Honey' and tells a story about a boy, a very adorable one, Yusuf (Bora Altas) who lives with his father, Yakup (Erdal Besikcioglu) a honey farmer and his mother Zehra (Tülin Özen) in a remote village in Turkey.
The six year old is having difficulties in school, especially in reading. Having a very close relationship with his father, Yusuf tried so hard to please his father by winning a special badge for good merit from his school.
But things went hard for Yusuf, he still have difficulties reading in the class and in a quick way he became the outsider of his class.
The only thing he like is when he accompany his father into the woods, finding honey. But one thing changed Yusuf's life. His father didn't return from the two day trip. What is happening? Will Yusuf keep struggling with reading and waiting the return of his beloved father?
What amaze me is not only the simplicity and the beauty of the story but how Bora Atlas can act very naturally, for a boy his age. Not only that he is adorable, but he got talent.
I just learned that this Bal (Honey) is the third part of a trilogy of Yusuf, after Yumurta (Egg) and Süt (Milk). I am curious to see the previous two films and to explore Turkish cinema in general since I rarely watch Turkish movies.
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