Walking forcefully to job interviews and group homes and even dates, often hand in hand with her tiny son, Umay is a figure both tragic and inspiring, unbowed by cultural pressure but also unaware of the tragedy that we, the audience, know will come to her. It is hard to express how excellent Kekilli is in the role. By the time the incident with the gun comes back in the story it's given an unnecessary twist, but by putting it in the beginning, director Feo Aladag has already given it the power to color our entire perception of her elegant story. Umay is a woman drowning, and on some level she knows it, but by God is she going to fight before it happens.
Aladag's insistence on playing out many of her scenes in silence leads to some confusion-- there are a lot of family members to get to know even though we're told very little about them-- and her ability to avoid melodrama slips from time to time, particularly in that final scene. But When We Leave is so well-acted, and so finely crafted, that it stands up above all its flaws. Some of the film's subtleties, like moments when characters switch from speaking German to Turkish and the basic tensions among the German Turkish populations, may be lost on viewers unfamiliar with German culture. But when Umay begs her father for forgiveness or giggles with her sister about boys or comforts her young son in the night, it's a universal story, and later a universal heartbreak.
A tense, nail-biting experience powered by strong performances,
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Aladag's insistence on playing out many of her scenes in silence leads to some confusion-- there are a lot of family members to get to know even though we're told very little about them-- and her ability to avoid melodrama slips from time to time, particularly in that final scene. But When We Leave is so well-acted, and so finely crafted, that it stands up above all its flaws. Some of the film's subtleties, like moments when characters switch from speaking German to Turkish and the basic tensions among the German Turkish populations, may be lost on viewers unfamiliar with German culture. But when Umay begs her father for forgiveness or giggles with her sister about boys or comforts her young son in the night, it's a universal story, and later a universal heartbreak.
A tense, nail-biting experience powered by strong performances,
Watch Movie Online Free: When We Leave Movie Online Free 2011
Watch Now in full HD movie : http://netwebsite.in
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