Night Of Silence Review

Night Of Silence
Released from prison, we meet Damat (Livas Salman) paying respects at the graves of the people who may or may not have been his victims. Soon he retreats to spend the night in the company of his new bride, shy teenager Gelin (Dilan Aksüt), where revelatio

by Simon Crook |
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Release Date:

28 Jun 2013

Running Time:

92 minutes

Certificate:

PG

Original Title:

Night Of Silence

On the night of their arranged marriage, a child bride and her groom slowly unearth each other’s secrets. Caged inside a single room, Reis Çelik’s tightly performed two-hander is a hushed masterwork of uneasy silence and covert motives, with a final shot that’s positively Hitchcockian.

Enthralling and occasionally uncomfortable, it's another example of the quality emerging from the blossoming Turkish film industry.
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