Taksim Hold'em: life is a game, poker isn't
Taksim Hold'em (2018) is the debut film of the young filmmaker Michael Onder. It peeks through a very turbulent period in Turkey, more precisely when the Gezi Park Protests took place in 2014. One would immediately expect this film to position itself on supporting the protests or to stand against them, but the genius of this film is that it takes a surprisingly different turn and minimalizes a society to a single…
