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Consent (Rıza) (translated)

Movie · 2007 · 4 people

Made in 2007, the Turkish drama Rıza (Consent) reached Turkish cinemas on 4 January 2008. Tayfun Pirselimoğlu wrote and directed it and also produced it. At 109 minutes, it is his second feature after Hiçbiryerde. It premiered in the Forum section of the Berlin Film Festival and won the Critics' Award at the Montpellier Film Festival; news of a further award for the film followed in November 2007.

Rıza is a lonely long-haul driver who hauls goods between Adana and Istanbul and owns nothing but his truck. On one of his routine trips the truck breaks down. Unable to find the money to repair a vehicle that is already mortgaged, he prepares to do whatever it takes for his only possession, and the film asks how far a sacrifice can stretch. In Istanbul the search leads him to a motel in Eminönü, among guests living in hard conditions and an ex-wife who does not even want to see him. Rıza Akın and Nurcan Eren share the lead, with Turgay Tanülkü, Mahir İpek and Muhammed Cangören in the cast.

Critic Ali Ercivan rated it "good", at 3.5 out of 5: little happens on screen for a while, he wrote, but the film eventually pulls itself out of that impasse.

DirectorTayfun Pirselimoğlu
Consent (Rıza) Consent (Rıza)

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Mahir İpek Mahir İpek Actor · 54 years old Muhammed Cangören Muhammed Cangören Actor · 75 years old Rıza Akın Actor · 1955 – 2022 Turgay Tanülkü Turgay Tanülkü Actor · 73 years old

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Through different eyes

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

Through a man who hauls goods between Adana and Istanbul and owns nothing but his truck, Rıza looks at a fragile world of labour. A mortgaged vehicle, a breakdown he cannot pay to fix, a whole life tied to a single possession: the film quietly asks how far economic desperation can push a person. The guests living in hard conditions at the Eminönü motel recall a side of the city that rarely gets seen, and the ex-wife who will not even see him stands out as part of that loneliness and those broken family ties. An honest record of people on the margins of 2000s Istanbul.

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

Honestly, this film did not match my pace. A truck driver scrambling to save his broken-down truck is an interesting setup, but for a long while not much happens on screen. The tension is built from silence, not noise. It is a drama that asks for patience across 109 minutes. If you want movement, pick something else; if you like slow, character-driven films, give it a go.

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

Watching Rıza, you think of Yeşilçam's poor but dignified heroes: a lonely man clinging to the one thing he has. Unlike them, though, this film refuses the easy comfort of melodrama and leaves the viewer alone with a wordless sadness. Its story, which asks where the limits of sacrifice lie, stays close to the moral questions the old masters loved, and the people of that Eminönü motel touch the heart. Anyone hoping for warmth may feel a little chilled, but its sincerity rings true.

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