Araf – Somewhere In Between
NYFF50: Main Slate
September 28 - October 14, 2012
North American Premiere!
Director Yeşim Ustaoğlu depicts with empathy and uncompromising honesty the fate of a teenaged girl when she becomes sexually obsessed with a long-distance trucker and the promise of freedom that he embodies.
North American Premiere!
Rush tickets available!
The title refers as much to the film’s main location—a tiny Turkish town comprised of no more than a few houses and a large motorway rest stop where the locals work impossibly long hours—as it does to adolescence, the way station where the child transforms into an adult. What seems at first like a piece of low-key realism comes into dramatic focus when an adolescent girl begins an obsessive sexual relationship with a middle-aged trucker, fueling the fury of the teen-aged boy who hoped to marry her. Yeşim Ustaoğlu, whose debut feature Journey to the Sun (ND/NF 2000) is one of the treasures of the New Turkish Cinema, is not only a visual poet of her country’s harshly beautiful landscapes; she also depicts with great empathy and uncompromising honesty the heart’s desires and the body’s needs.
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