Night of Silence

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Night of Silence

2012

1h 31m

Drama

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After a wedding ceremony for an arranged marriage, a 14-year-old bride is led to a bridal chamber and given instructions in nuptial customs by her sister-in-law.

Charlotte O'Sullivan

London Evening Standard

06/28/2013

3/5

The colours are so vivid you ache to reach out and touch them). It's also painfully funny and full of surprises.

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Thirza Wakefield

Little White Lies

06/28/2013

4/5

By anybody's standards, this is tough and exposing territory, which makes it all the more impressive that Celik's human-inventions remain as luminously secretive as folklore.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

06/27/2013

3/5

This is an elegant and cerebral piece of work, but finally a little subdued, and perhaps doesn't measure up to the expectations of the opening 10 minutes.

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Patrick Gamble

CineVue

02/26/2019

4/5

Combine these deft directorial touches with two assured and captivating performances from the film's protagonists and you have a delicate, eloquent and subtly hard-hitting drama that belies its simple premise.

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Siobhan Synnot

Scotsman

07/29/2013

3/5

Two great performances hold together Reis Celik's slow-moving study of child brides ...

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Philip Kemp

Total Film

07/02/2013

4/5

Treating what could be a deeply distasteful subject with subtlety and restraint, Reis elik's intimate two-hander explores a fraught situation with sympathy and unexpected revelations ...

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09/01/2015

Night of Silence [Turkey, 2012] Amazing how something so distasteful was told in such charming and spectacular performances. 10/10

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Synopsis

After a wedding ceremony for an arranged marriage, a 14-year-old bride is led to a bridal chamber and given instructions in nuptial customs by her sister-in-law.

Director: Reis Çelik
Producer: Anil Celik
Screenwriter: Reis Çelik
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Turkish
Runtime: 1h 31m