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Put to the Things

2018 · 86 min

A playful, disorienting puzzle that drifts between absurd comedy and quiet melancholy, asking you to surrender to its dreamlike logic.

Directed by
Onur Ünlü
Genres
Drama
Starring
Türkü Turan, Kadir Çermik, Öykü Karayel
Tagline
About everything. About nothing. About everything.
Overview
The already complex connections of a group of artists living in İstanbul’s Cihangir district are becoming bizarre because of a camcorder entering their lives. A narcissistic director in which all the women are in love, two roommates connected by cable, a theater scene that can turn into a morgue concurrently, a nurse who resurrects the dead people, and a drug dealer who has no arms, sometimes the right, sometimes the left, sometimes both arms; these are protagonists of the experimental narrative that Onur Ünlü plays with time and space.

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Directed by
Onur Ünlü
Genres
Drama
Starring
Türkü Turan, Kadir Çermik, Öykü Karayel
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How it feels

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Tone
  • absurdstrength 3 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • art
  • identity
  • obsession
  • death
  • isolation
Places
  • big city
  • home
  • workplace
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • ensemble
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour6
Realism4
Romance3
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity8
Emotional weight5

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Genres
drama
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Türkü Turan, Kadir Çermik, Öykü Karayel, Öner Erkan, Erkan Kolçak Köstendil, Kuzey Yücehan, Bahar Selvi, Elit İşcan
Cinematography
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Runtime
86 min
Country
Turkey
Languages
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