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Glass Curtain

2023 · 95 min

A quietly suffocating, naturalistic drama that immerses you in a woman's bureaucratic and emotional entrapment, leaving a lingering sense of unease.

Directed by: Fikret Reyhan
Genres: Drama
Starring: Uğur Karabulut, Selen Kurtaran, Alper Çankaya

Overview: Nesrin, a single mother who lives with her four-year-old son, struggles with her ex-husband Ömer’s oppressive behaviour and bureaucratic hardships while she is on the brink of making a critical decision regarding her relationship with her boyfriend Selim.

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Directed by: Fikret Reyhan
Genres: Drama
Starring: Uğur Karabulut, Selen Kurtaran, Alper Çankaya

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Tone: bleakstrength 3 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: isolation
family
power
parenthood
identity
Places: big city
home
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild

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Action	1
Horror	1
Humour	1
Realism	9
Romance	3
Tension	6
Darkness	7
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	8

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Fikret Reyhan
Written by: Fikret Reyhan
Starring: Uğur Karabulut, Selen Kurtaran, Alper Çankaya, Fatih Sönmez, Tuna Kemal Kara, S. Emrah Özdemir, Elif Çakman, Ecre Begüm Bayrak
Cinematography: Barış Aygen
Runtime: 95 min
Country: Turkey
Languages: Turkish

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