Times and Winds (Bes vakit) (2006)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 39
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 5
Lilting and meditative, Reha Erdem's story of three adolescents in rural Turkey captivates with intimate details and long takes of the endless countryside.
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 3
Lilting and meditative, Reha Erdem's story of three adolescents in rural Turkey captivates with intimate details and long takes of the endless countryside.
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Director Reha Erdem paints an affecting portrait of life in a remote village of Turkey with this tale of three preteen friends whose childhood dreams are gradually crushed by the apparent wickedness of their adult guardians. Ömer's (Özkan Özen) father is the local imam and a highly respected member of the community, but that doesn't change the fact that he treats Ömer with such distain that the youngster can frequently be found praying for his father's death. Yakup (Ali Bey Kayali) is a young
Nov 10, 2007 Wide
Jul 15, 2008
Kino International
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Ozkan Ozen
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Ali Bey Kayali
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Elit Iscan
Yildiz -
Bulent Ermin Yarar
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Taner Birsel
Zekeriya -
Yigit Özsener
Yusuf -
Selma Ergeç
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It's a work of singular beauty.
Top CriticErdem's script and his young cast do a fine job of recalling the years between carefree childhood (embodied by Omer's brother, the precocious and adorable Ali) and adult power and duties.
Buried in leaves or hugging the rocks, they could be in ecstatic communion or fusing with the natural world. More likely, Erdem's marvellous film sees them as bridging the divide between heaven and earth.
Though modestly plotted and deliberately paced, Times and Winds is a hypnotic look at life in a remote village on Turkey's northwest coast.
Subtly unsettling yet fascinating.
A blunt look at how anger binds generations.
As Arvo Pärt's orchestration runs ponderously through the film, so the consequences of cyclical violence weigh heavily on Erdem's mind. But his vision is not without hope.
An earthy, cruelly honest dream-wander through the physical and emotional awakenings of three young teenagers whose lives are shaped and constrained by the rural rhythms of their remote mountain village.
in a film both as banal, and as miraculous, as the endlessly repeating metamorphoses that it portrays, time does not so much heal old wounds as reopen them in new bodies - and the result is a vision that sets human progress against eternal return.
Too surreal and symbolic to fully connect with mainstream cinema audiences, but lovers of challenging festival films will be captivated
Though painfully slow to ignite and poetically portentous on occasions, Reha Erdem's film about three children growing up in a remote Anatolian village, isolated by high mountains, has an impressive edge to it.
The film is concerned with observing the passage of time, the change in the light, the immemorial contours of the landscape, and, in one shot, a very touching pieta of a boy and his new baby sibling. Compelling stuff if you can stay with it.
We've seen this kind of picturesque rural drama before, but director Reha Erdem still hews a rich poetry from the material. The story's elegantly structured around the five daily calls-to-prayer given from a parapet with stunning views.
Difficult, frustrating, but engrossing and ultimately enriching, make time to see it.
But it's Erdem's unsentimental compassion towards his characters, his fidelity to the rhythms of their lives and the arcs of their imaginations, that gives this film its wondrous power and depth.
Times and Winds is a remarkable piece of work, conceived at the highest pitch of intelligence: it is a cinematic poem, replete with fear and rapture, and one of the best films of the year.
It is, at a guess, about life's relentless march, about death, rebirth, and the hollow limits of religion in the face of overwhelming nature. You have to see it to get it, but when you've got it you've got it for good.
A lyrical yet unsentimental vision of childhood, directed with striking assurance by Erdem.
A toughly touching insight into the pain of growing up.
Everything in Times and Winds glides by like a dream. Or perhaps, the dreamlike tone reminds us that we'll never know such hardship.
[A]n earthy, cruelly honest dream-wander...
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Foreign Titles
- Des temps et des vents (FR)
- Times and Winds (ES)
