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Road to the Moon (Aydede)

Road to the Moon (Aydede)

Movie · 2018 · 9 people

Abdurrahman Öner wrote and directed the 2018 Turkish drama Aydede (internationally Road to the Moon), which Arzu Şenses Öner produced. It opened on October 5, 2018, runs about ninety-seven minutes and was distributed by Kurmaca Film. The title refers to Aydede, the form in which the young hero is told his grandfather lives on the Moon.

Bekir, who lost his father young, lives with his mother Rabia and his grandfather İlyas, who run the town's haberdashery shop together. When İlyas dies, Bekir is told, so that he will not be sad, that his beloved grandfather has gone to the Moon and become Aydede. Inspired by a film on television, the boy dreams of riding a bicycle to the Moon to see him. Meanwhile Rabia loses the home and shop in an inheritance draw with her sister, then fights her bitterly over the estate. A platonic love makes her life harder still.

Bilal Zeynel Çelik plays Bekir and Ezgi Mola Rabia. The cast includes Reha Özcan (Necati), Mehmet Özgür (Osman), Banu Fotocan (Fatma), Nazan Kesal (Neriman), Nalan Kuruçim (Necla), Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu as Dürdane and Emirhan Ateş. Meryem Yavuz was cinematographer and Elif Tasçıoğlu art director; Öner edited the film himself.

DirectorAbdurrahman Öner

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Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu Ayşenil Şamlıoğlu Actor · 70 years old Dürdane Reha Özcan Reha Özcan Actor · 61 years old Necati Ezgi Mola Ezgi Mola Actor · 43 years old Rabia Mehmet Özgür Mehmet Özgür Actor · 56 years old Osman Nazan Kesal Nazan Kesal Actor · 57 years old Neriman Banu Fotocan Fatma Nalan Kuruçim Nalan Kuruçim Actor · 55 years old Necla Bilal Zeynel Çelik Bekir Emirhan Ateş Hasan

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Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

A film dealing with heavy subjects such as death, grief and an inheritance feud. A boy who loses his grandfather is told that he has gone to the Moon and become the Man in the Moon; the idea is both sweet and sad. It may feel sad for young children, and the quarrel between the adults is not really for kids either. For a family with children over ten who are ready to talk about death afterwards, it can be a meaningful choice.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Abdurrahman Öner did not just write and direct the film, he also edited it himself, which may be a clue to its looseness. The structure runs on two separate lines: a fairy-tale childhood story woven around Bekir's dream of flying to the Moon, and an adult drama of Rabia caught between an inheritance feud and an unrequited love. Rather than feeding each other, the two lines sometimes block each other; the child's point of view could have offered a firm axis, but when the film shifts its weight to the adult conflict the tone gets muddied. Still, the idea of a childish dream turning into a way of coping with loss is a core that, with tighter editing discipline, could have made a much stronger film.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

Socially, the most notable thing about Aydede is that it puts an inheritance dispute in a small town at its center. A widowed woman who loses her home and her living, the haberdashery, in a lottery drawn between sisters stands for a rupture many families in Turkey recognize: dividing property can turn siblings against each other. Rabia's isolation in the provinces, as a woman both raising a child and running a shop, is one of the film's quieter layers. It shows this picture not as a lesson but from within one family's everyday life.

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