![]() ![]() ![]() ("We're real pigs," they realize.) Before long, they discover that they're both falling in love with the pretty, demure, much younger university student. The 'boys' take some time to adapt to having their bachelor existence compromised by a female presence. ![]() They're soon joined by the traumatized Nihal (Gunes Sayin), sister of their friend Fikret (Taner Birsel), who needs somewhere to stay following the death of her parents in a car crash. After several years away, Cetin has moved into Ender's comfortable downtown apartment in Ankara, the Turkish capital. Now in their late 30's, the pair have enjoyed a very close, platonic bond since high school. ![]() Though hardly an especially significant example of contemporary Turkish cinema, it'll prove catnip for festivals worldwide and could well click at domestic box offices in its native land.Īt the heart of the film, adapted by director Seyfi Teoman from Baris Bicakci's novel in collaboration with the author, is a long-time friendship between bookish, bespectacled Ender (Ilker Aksum) and his more down-to-earth pal, the bearishly burly Cetin (Fatih Al). A bromantic "Jules et Jim"-lite love-triangle set in a snowy Ankara, it's an accessibly droll, bittersweet comedy (rather more sweet than bitter) which has considerable English-language remake potential. ![]()
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