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The Waiting Room

2004 · 92 min

A quiet, heavy plunge into a stalled artist's mind, watching him drift from everyone who cares.

Overview
Ahmet, a filmmaker on Dostoyevsky's 'Crime and Punishment', sinks into depression, alienates loved ones, and abandons his film.

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How it feels

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Tone
    Pacing
    slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    • isolation
    • obsession
    • art
    • identity
    • guilt
    Places
    • big city
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    None
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence none
    • Sex mild
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action0
    Horror1
    Humour1
    Realism8
    Romance2
    Tension4
    Darkness8
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight8

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    Details

    Genres
    drama
    Directed by
    Zeki Demirkubuz
    Written by
    Zeki Demirkubuz
    Starring
    Zeki Demirkubuz, Nurhayat Kavrak, Nilüfer Açıkalın, Serdar Orçin, Ufuk Bayraktar, Eda Teksöz, Güliz Pilge, Apo Demirkubuz
    Cinematography
    Zeki Demirkubuz
    Runtime
    92 min
    Country
    Turkey
    Languages
    Turkish

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