"Our Grand Despair
17 February, 2011 | By Jonathan Romney
Dir/scr: Seyfi Teoman. Turkey-Germany-Netherland. 2011. 102mins
According to the market model, comedy and drama combine to make the genre called ‘dramedy’. Unfortunately, the mix often classifies instead as‘coma’ - which is the case for inert love-triangle cum buddy bagatelle Our Grand Despair (Bizim Büyük Çaresizligimiz). Two middle-aged Turkish men provide a home to a beautiful young student, and the result is emotional butterflies all round. The result is not cutting-edge and affable casting and undemanding good humour could make Seyfi Teoman’s film moderately marketable. It could just as easily, though, end up being remade as US romcom fodder - almost certainly with Vince Vaughn and some other Hollywood renta-nice-guy."
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