Içimdeki Ses

The Voice Inside Me (Içimdeki Ses) (translated)

Movie · 2014 · 6 people

Çağrı Bayrak directed İçimdeki Ses ("The Voice Inside Me"), a Turkish comedy. Engin Günaydın wrote the screenplay and also plays the lead. The film was shot in 2014 and opened in cinemas on 30 January 2015. It runs 93 minutes. Günaydın had earlier written the screenplay for Vavien, and this time he turns the classic "rich girl, poor man" romance into a comedy. The film nods to familiar Yeşilçam formulas and builds on a love that looks impossible.

The hero, Selim, is a writer who has shut himself away in a small world. A lack of confidence keeps him from forming healthy relationships with anyone. To cure his loneliness, he decides to move in with his mother Mehpare, who has just come back from umrah. At the gym, thanks to his clumsiness, he meets a woman named Ayşıl, who is both rich and beautiful enough to turn every head. Unexpectedly, she falls for him. Worn out by everything else in her life, Ayşıl believes happiness runs through Selim's mother and her circle of friends, and both she and Selim are swept into a series of comic mishaps.

Besides Engin Günaydın, the cast includes Leyla Lydia Tuğutlu, Füsun Demirel, Ersin Korkut, Onur Buldu and Hamdi Kahraman. Onur Buldu plays Alptekin and Nazlı Tosunoğlu plays Zübeyde.

DirectorÇağrı Bayrak

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

İçimdeki Ses is a light comedy the family can watch together. A clumsy writer, a rich and beautiful woman, a mother and her circle of friends caught in the middle: the laughs mostly come from clumsiness and mishaps. With the love story up front, it may not do much for very young children. For teenagers and adults, it's an easy evening film.

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

The rich girl and the poor man is one of the formulas Yeşilçam taught us to love most, and İçimdeki Ses knocks on that familiar door. Selim, written and played by Engin Günaydın, is a heartfelt character: a man short on confidence who has shut himself inside his small world. For an eye seeking the innocent grace of the classics, though, the humour may feel too loud in places. In the old films an impossible love wrung the heart; here it mostly turns into a string of comic mishaps. The intention is warm, but the old magic is largely missing.

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

Engin Günaydın, who wrote Vavien, retreats to safer ground with İçimdeki Ses and builds a classic romantic-comedy frame: a love that looks impossible, a class gap, comic tangles that spread to the family. Çağrı Bayrak's direction runs the machinery smoothly but rarely steps outside the formula. Günaydın's performance is the film's strongest asset; it comes alive in the moments when he plays Selim's insecurity without tipping into excess. Names such as Leyla Lydia Tuğutlu, Füsun Demirel and Ersin Korkut add colour to the cast. At 93 minutes it never wears you out, but the script is content to wink at Yeşilçam conventions rather than rethink them.

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