Hesitation Wound
New Directors/New Films 2024
April 3 - 14, 2024
The unwelcome intrusion of law and society in affairs of the heart is a story grippingly told in writer-director Selman Nacar’s sophomore feature, following 24 stressful hours in the life of a Turkish criminal lawyer torn between her allegiances to her murder-suspect client, her convalescent mother, and the judge, a man of questionable principles.
The unwelcome intrusion of law and society in affairs of the heart, so remarkably limned of late in Anatomy of a Fall, is a story grippingly told in Hesitation Wound, following 24 stressful hours in the life of a Turkish criminal lawyer torn between her allegiances to her client, a murder suspect; her mother, who convalesces in a hospital; and the judge, a man of questionable principles. A Dostoyevskian thriller laced with moral anguish, Hesitation Wound places writer-director Selman Nacar in the company of his compatriot Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
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