Crazy Heart (Deli Gönül)

Crazy Heart (Deli Gönül) (translated)

TV Series · 2017 · 8 people

25 Film made the Turkish drama series Deli Gönül ("Crazy Heart"). It began on Fox, now NOW, on July 4, 2017, ran a single season and ended with its 10th episode on September 4, 2017. Episodes run about 120 minutes, and Selim Demirdelen and Berat Özdoğan directed. It is a love story, told through a teacher's eyes, about how lies can send people down separate paths for years.

Kadir (Murat Ünalmış), a teacher adored in his coastal town, has his life changed when he falls for Fatmanur, the new music teacher at his school. Her father disapproves, but they plan to marry until fate and lies intervene. Kadir moves to Istanbul and works at a school with challenging students. His world is rocked when Fatmanur joins the staff; both are now married to other people, and the question is how they will cope with the web of deceit that kept them apart. Tuvana Türkay, Çiğdem Batur (Türkan), Ogün Kaptanoğlu (Ahmet), Hayal Ada Toprakkaya (Şükran) and Tarık Özenbaş (Şafak) also star.

In Brazil the series aired as Verdades Não Ditas: Viva ran it from January 7 to May 25, 2020, and Mais na Tela began repeating it on February 8, 2021.

DirectorSelim Demirdelen, Berat Özdoğan
Production company25 Film
NetworkFox

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Series Binger A series devotee tracking character arcs, cast chemistry and season pacing.

Deli Gönül is a single-season, ten-episode summer series, and that short form works both for and against it. Kadir and Fatmanur's love, torn apart by lies, builds real intrigue once they meet again at the same school, both now married to other people. Murat Ünalmış's beloved teacher Kadir is the show's solid anchor. But episodes running around 120 minutes can make some evenings feel stretched beyond what the story needs. The finale also comes quickly; with a second season we could have followed the characters' growth at a more comfortable pace.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

A seaside town, a teacher everyone loves, a new music teacher at the school and a romance her father disapproves of: the set-up could have come straight from my favorite Yeşilçam melodramas. Lies sweeping two people down separate paths for years recalls the theme of fate in our old films. I also appreciate the respect it shows for the teaching profession. Still, the television format sometimes stretches this emotional story too far; an old film would have told the same heartache in two hours, far more intensely.

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

Deli Gönül's most notable feature is telling its love story through a teacher's eyes, a point of view that sets up a contrast between the seaside town and the Istanbul school with its challenging students. Its structural problems are plain, though. Episodes of around 120 minutes carry the typical burden of Turkish television's long-episode format: a tendency to spread scenes out rather than keep the dramatic tension tight. Under the joint direction of Selim Demirdelen and Berat Özdoğan, the unravelling of the web of lies, squeezed into a single season, seems rushed in places and dragged out in others. Murat Ünalmış carries the narrative with a restrained performance as Kadir. Its ambition to go beyond the formula is limited, but within its own bounds it is an honest melodrama.

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