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Güzel Günler Göreceğiz

To Better Days (Güzel Günler Göreceğiz)

Movie · 2012 · 9 people

From a screenplay by Emre Kavuk, Hasan Tolga Pulat directed Güzel Günler Göreceğiz ("To Better Days"), a Turkish drama. Built from parallel stories, it takes place within a single day in Istanbul and opened on 3 February 2012. It was the first film for both Pulat and Kavuk, and it competed at the 48th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival, where it won Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Editing and Best Supporting Actress.

The story follows five characters, Cumali, Ali, Figen, İzzet and Anna, whose paths cross. None is aware of the others, so none deliberately interferes in another's life, yet by the end of the day it becomes clear how people have touched each other's lives after all. The cast includes Uğur Polat, Buğra Gülsoy, Nesrin Cavadzade, Feride Çetin and Barış Atay, along with Bedia Ener, Luran Ahmeti, Emre Melemez and Yiğit Dikmen.

The awards were seen as the festival's biggest surprise and set off a heated polemic. A review written in the week of release found the film well made, argued that its team had been denied the leniency usually shown to first-time filmmakers, and noted the serious effort behind the script. Press scored it 1.8 from two reviews, while viewers gave it 3.1.

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Barış Atay Barış Atay Actor · 45 years old Bedia Ener Film actor · died at 70 Buğra Gülsoy Buğra Gülsoy Actor · 44 years old Emre Melemez Emre Melemez Actor · 51 years old Feride Çetin Feride Çetin Actor · 45 years old Nesrin Cavadzade Nesrin Cavadzade Actor · 44 years old Uğur Polat Uğur Polat Actor · 65 years old Luran Ahmeti Luran Ahmeti Actor · died at 46 Yiğit Dikmen Yiğit Dikmen Actor · 39 years old

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

The first film by Hasan Tolga Pulat and Emre Kavuk chooses to build five lives crossing in Istanbul over a single day as a parallel narrative. That structure is anything but easy: with the characters unaware of one another and the links emerging only at day's end, a heavy load falls on the rhythm of the editing. Seen that way, the Best Editing and Best Screenplay prizes at Antalya make sense. The cast, featuring Uğur Polat, Nesrin Cavadzade and Feride Çetin, is well balanced. The awards being called a surprise and sparking a fierce row, though, loaded the film with more expectation than it needed. It is not flawless, and some links in the parallel chain can feel weaker than others, but a serious screenwriting effort is felt in every scene.

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

Güzel Günler Göreceğiz invites us to think of Istanbul as a city where strangers live side by side. Cumali, Ali, Figen, İzzet and Anna touch each other's lives over the same day without realising it, which quietly raises a question about loneliness and invisible ties in a big city. The film makes no grand social argument; it tries to convey the city's rhythm by looking at a single day of ordinary people. That approach brings out the idea that in a crowded city the individual is both lost and, willingly or not, tied to others. The hope in its title reads like a subtle comment on what those crossings mean.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

Honestly, this is not my genre. Five separate stories and a single day; with drama up front, the structure drags in places for anyone after pace. The tension does not explode, it builds quietly. Still, the question of how these characters' paths will cross keeps you watching to the end. Good for a calm evening; if you want something fast, pick another film.

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