Looking for answers in rural Turkey
March 05, 2012 01:54 AM
By Jim Quilty
The Daily Star
BEIRUT: When the lights come up on “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia,” it’s difficult to know, at first, what it is you’re seeing. The opening frame confronts you with something indistinct – it might be a pane of glass obstructed by smears of ice.When you are allowed to see, it’s nighttime and two cars and a 4X4 are snaking their way along an unlit country road. Exterior shots engulf the screen in blackness, punctuated only by the cars’ headlights. Conversation in the vehicles’ dim interiors soon suggests that this is a police convoy.
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