Sokokashiko

この『BAL (はちみつ）』という題のトルコ映画が気になります。

トルコの田舎で養蜂業の父と、お茶畑で働いているお母さんの愛情を受けて、質素な家で暮らし芸術家を目指す6歳の少年が人間的にも成長する姿を描いた作品です。

この映画、第60回ベルリン国際映画祭で金熊賞を獲得し，トルコにとっては1964年以来ぶりの快挙でもあったようです。

静かでゆったりとした映像、丁寧な表情の描写、そしてトルコならではの家の中や暮らし方の風景。
とても惹かれます。

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Bal (Honey) (2010)

Yusuf is an only child who lives with his parents in an isolated mountain area. For the young boy, the surrounding forest becomes a place of mystery and adventure when accompanying his father on the job. Yusuf watches in admiration as his beekeeper father Yakup hangs specially-made hives at the top of the tallest trees. With the skill of a tightrope acrobat, he must often suspend dangerously from the uppermost branches to gather honey. The strong bond that he has with his father cannot protect Yusuf from becoming an outsider during his first year of school. Yusuf’s stutter shames him in front of his classmates during oral reading assignments. Yusuf’s anxieties escalate when his father must travel to a faraway forest on a risky mission. His father gone, Yusuf slips into silence to the distress of his pretty young mother Zehra. Days pass and Yakup still does not return. Yusuf sees his mother becoming sadder everyday. Yusuf summons all of his courage and goes deep into the forest to search for his father. A journey into the unknown… (The Match Factory)

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