Tekerleme (1984)

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1. 

   RonJensen

   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKVizC1CH-E (w German subs) 4 years 1 month ago
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   Torgo

   That's a very artsy one and, at 11 checks and 20 IMDb votes, fairly obscure. Somehow, Tekerleme was afforded by the German film academy, so the German subtitles for the (rather terrible) rip on Youtube are of astonishingly high linguistic quality. They still can't, so am I afraid, transport all of the dialogues' original meaning. The film title translates to "jawbreaker" or "tongue twister" (if Google can be trusted on this) and the film features some intellectual reflections on rhetoric and society, a few passages of singing and stuff that obviously plays with syllables, maybe rhymes (?), speedy intonation - some of those weren't even bothered to be subbed - all of which will be lost to non-Turkish speakers.
   
   What remains has little plot to speak of, not much of visual attention and seems to be purely driven by dialogue and themes. It reminded me of Nouvelle Vague, only (deliberately?) more low-budget. At one point, Jean-Marie Straub is name-dropped, so maybe you better be warned...
   
   If you want to test your own patience, give 7:28-14:08 a look. That must be the anti-cinema the dudes were talking about, huh. 3 years 5 months ago

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