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Mustang delivers a bracing -- and thoroughly timely -- message whose power is further bolstered by the efforts of a stellar ensemble cast.
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There are so many remarkable things about this wonderful movie. Jun 24, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
There are so many remarkable things about this wonderful movie.
Paul Byrnes
Erguven is wisely determined to avoid any hint of melodrama. Jun 17, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Erguven is wisely determined to avoid any hint of melodrama.
Sandra Hall
Mustang is incendiary and intimate, enraging and sweet. May 13, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Mustang is incendiary and intimate, enraging and sweet.
Kevin Maher
Raw, funny and incredibly moving. May 11, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Raw, funny and incredibly moving.
Cath Clarke
The giddy abandon of youthful pleasures are writ large across blissed-out faces and fast mouths. The story moves at speed, with Ergüven constantly resisting the temptation to pause and wring sentiment from a dramatic development. May 11, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
The giddy abandon of youthful pleasures are writ large across blissed-out faces and fast mouths. The story moves at speed, with Ergüven constantly resisting the temptation to pause and wring sentiment from a dramatic development.
Sophie Monks Kaufman
The story isn't particularly original, but Mustang's achievement is to criticize a society that sexualizes everything women do while still celebrating the girls' sexuality. Feb 18, 2016 | Full Review…
The story isn't particularly original, but Mustang's achievement is to criticize a society that sexualizes everything women do while still celebrating the girls' sexuality.
Elaine Teng
A celebration of authentic sisterhood and a rousing social commentary, Mustang joins its sisters (Little and Skinny) to form an extraordinary and essential trifecta on siblings and life itself. Apr 2, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
A celebration of authentic sisterhood and a rousing social commentary, Mustang joins its sisters (Little and Skinny) to form an extraordinary and essential trifecta on siblings and life itself.
Rachel Brook
It's an intriguing and, despite its subject, a positive and even at times light-hearted story of female empowerment from a talented new director. Feb 21, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
It's an intriguing and, despite its subject, a positive and even at times light-hearted story of female empowerment from a talented new director.
Alexa Dalby
In a cinematic year filled with excellent stories about young women growing up...Mustang is the best coming-of-age film in 2015. Jan 9, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
In a cinematic year filled with excellent stories about young women growing up...Mustang is the best coming-of-age film in 2015.
Joel Mayward
With a film that uses its opening scenes to show what a force of nature these young girls can be, it's Erugven who demonstrates she's one to be reckoned with herself. Nov 13, 2018 | Full Review…
With a film that uses its opening scenes to show what a force of nature these young girls can be, it's Erugven who demonstrates she's one to be reckoned with herself.
Stephen Saito
The heroines and villains of Mustang are occasionally black and white, but it's an assured directorial debut that uses its autobiographical elements not to engage in navel-gazing, but to train that gaze on a repressive society. Aug 28, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The heroines and villains of Mustang are occasionally black and white, but it's an assured directorial debut that uses its autobiographical elements not to engage in navel-gazing, but to train that gaze on a repressive society.
Pat Padua
It's a story both modern and timeless, an aching ode to freedom and resilience, and a stunning debut. Aug 27, 2018 | Full Review…
It's a story both modern and timeless, an aching ode to freedom and resilience, and a stunning debut.
Molly Templeton
A stunning, perfect film, filled with beautifully natural performances, poetic photography, a haunting score, an insight into life in rural Turkey, an exploration of feminity, adolescence, sisterhood, patriarchy, oppression, life, the universe and everything. A melancholic joy.
Super Reviewer
A superb telling of modern life in Turkey for the daughters of a family growing up as they fight to stop the traditionalist values, such as arranged marriages. Superbly acted and definitely something that will make you think long and hard about what freedom in life really is.
At first, it seems like a Turkish Virgin Suicides with a social commentary on the cultural oppression of women in that country, but soon it starts to become less and less subtle as the story progresses to the point of even including an unnecessary element of sexual abuse.
Director's Deniz Gamze Ergüven's harsh critique of an oppressive patriarchal society is straightforward, but it isn't subtle. The saga descends from the carefree optimism on the beach into the dark corruption of a community prone to gender bias. The essential "house arrest" of these 5 teen girls approaches the totalitarian conditions of a jail. The nightmare that is their homelife is clearly evident. Their subjugation is infuriating. As Westerners we are forced into a judgmental corner and are predictably outraged. The cultural portrait is nicely presented. This makes the decision to further stack the narrative by also making the uncle sexually abusive, a bit ham-handed. The focus isn't just about the tyranny of a culture unjust to women anymore. Now we're dealing with sexual assault. The approach is unnecessarily embellished. We feel the forcible pull of a screenplay, co-written by the director and Alice Winocour, overstating its case. However as the debut feature from an up-and-coming filmmaker, there's still a lot to admire here. fasfilmreviews.com
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