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Apparently, this is a film that merely exists to taunt me. It's like my monkey's paw, for always complaining that Turkish cinema is too dry and dreary. Time to Love is anything but that, but the result isn't that much better. It feels like an amateur attempt to recreate the Nouvelle Vague in Turkey, and while somewhat interesting, it's also incredibly bad. The performances are terrible, the cinematography feels uncertain and the music is an absolute assault on the ears. I swear there were moments when you could hear someone put on a vinyl. The film is quirky though and it deserves points for being different. I liked none of it, but at least it kept me interested in seeing the next scene. Time to Love is pretty bad, but never boring.Read all
The poster may look colorful and somewhat exciting, but the actual film is a barren and dreary drama that did very little to change my perception of classic Turkish cinema. It's stylistically poor poverty porn that thrives on misery and unpleasant characters. Not really my kind of cinema really. The cinematography is half-decent, but the black-and-white doesn't do the film any favors and it's far from refined enough to carry the film. The soundtrack is terrible, the plot depressing and the characters are horrible. Not the slowest film of its kind, but hard to recommend unless you're a hardcore fan of rural drama.Read all