Favorite films
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
Don’t forget to select your favorite films!
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
Mustang(2015) directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven is a Turkish film about five sisters that are harshly criticized by their parents and village for innocently playing with boys on the beach. We watch the girls comply with their grandmothers desire to prepare the girls for maternity.
Ergüven shows us how traditional principles, such as arranged marriage, can literally and figuratively imprison women. They are coerced into believing that it’s sinful to be around other men or wear clothes that don’t cover…