Despite one or two nice moments and the naturalistic tone, it's all a bit of a slog.
Men On The Bridge(Köprüdekiler)
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Turkey, Germany, Netherlands · 2009
1h 27m
Director Aslı Özge
Starring Cemile Ilker, Umut Ilker, Fikret Portakal
Genre Drama
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Men on the Bridge is the story of three men working at the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul and their intersecting lives. A struggling youth, a taxi driver, and a police officer show their different life perspectives in Istanbul and how this bridge that connects Europe to Asia affects each of their lives.
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All in all, this is a carefully modulated plea for tolerance and mutual understanding.
Showing a keen, compassionate eye for human observation, Özge reveals how each of his character's lives is as gridlocked as the cars on the bridge.
The result is a fascinating, if somewhat scattered, meta attempt to straddle modernism and realism, creating an aesthetic purgatory oddly similar to the film's geographical one.
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