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A Tale of Three Sisters

Kız Kardeşler (A Tale of Three Sisters)

2019

Emin Alper

Cemre Ebuzziya, Ece Yüksel, Helin Kandemir, Kayhan Açikgöz ...

6.1

111

Drama A stagnant and gloomy village in the 1980s. Reyhan, Nurhan, and Havva, three sisters were sent to town as 'besleme' (foster child and maid). Since they fail their foster parents for different reasons, they are sent back to their father's house in their poor village. Deprived of their dreams of a better life, they try to hold on to each other.

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"The film struggles to excite admiration outside the visuals, forcing the viewer to vainly search for what exactly it was Alper wished to achieve"	NEU
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"A unique work that deftly blends Chekhov and the Brothers Grimm. Often entrancing and sometimes quite intense (...) It's good to see the writer-director reaching out towards new themes and styles"	POS
United Kingdom	Lee Marshall Screendaily	"A quirky, striking work with impressive production values and and an evocative teeter between fairy-tale and ethnographic realism"	POS
United States	Pat Brown Slant	"The film works its way toward a kind of moral resolution, though at times the journey there is a bit of a slog."	NEU
	Marta Bałaga Cineuropa	"Emin Alper’s flawed fable has brief moments of wonder but is not afraid to get its fingernails dirty"	NEU

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