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Can

2012 · 106 min

A quiet, emotionally wrenching drama that traces the slow unraveling of a marriage with unflinching intimacy and sadness.

Directed by
Raşit Çelikezer
Genres
Drama
Starring
Selen Uçer, Serdar Orçin, Berkan Demirbağ
Overview
Loving Istanbul couple Ayşe and Cemal need only a child to complete their life together, but they cannot conceive. To salvage Cemal’s pride, they resort to illegal means to procure a baby. This wild grab at a more perfect life proves their undoing, leading the couple to spiral toward separate futures. The couple's estrangement is intertwined with the film’s parallel narrative, in which a distant and neglectful single mom is raising her little boy, Can.

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Directed by
Raşit Çelikezer
Genres
Drama
Starring
Selen Uçer, Serdar Orçin, Berkan Demirbağ
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 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
  • parenthood
  • grief
  • betrayal
  • isolation
  • family
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour1
Realism8
Romance4
Tension5
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Details

Genres
drama
Directed by
Raşit Çelikezer
Starring
Selen Uçer, Serdar Orçin, Berkan Demirbağ, Erkan Avcı, Erdal Cindoruk, Cengiz Bozkurt, İdil Yener, Zeynep Yalçın
Runtime
106 min
Country
Turkey
Languages
Turkish

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