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Gravitational Loves (Yer Çekimli Aşklar)

Gravitational Loves (Yer Çekimli Aşklar) (translated)

Movie · 1995 · 15 people

Five separate stories come together under one roof in Yer Çekimli Aşklar, a Turkish anthology film from 1995. It was produced by Sinema Vakfı, the Cinema Foundation. Its five directors are Orhan Oğuz, Memduh Ün, Barış Pirhasan, Atıf Yılmaz and Ali Özgentürk. Described as a drama with a political edge, it was shot in color on 35 mm, runs 127 minutes and opened on February 9, 1996.

Its segments take their names from fairy tales and everyday life: Pamuk Prenses (Snow White), Şövalye (Knight), Hain (Traitor), Kazandibi, Sır (Secret) and Gül ile Adem. Nilüfer Açıkalın plays Ceren in the Snow White segment, Mahir Günşıray plays Sinan in the Knight segment and Aytaç Arman plays Tunç in the Traitor segment. Ülkü Duru plays Gül and Olgun Şimşek plays Adem. The cast also includes Türkan Şoray (Mehpare), Ali Poyrazoğlu (Adnan), Özcan Deniz (Cemal) and İpek Tuzcuoğlu (Sema).

The screenplay credits go to Zeynep Avcı, Tarık Dursun Kakınç, Nilüfer Açıkalın, Barış Pirhasan and Ali Özgentürk, while Avcı and Onat Kutlar also appear as the source authors. Cinematography was shared by Orhan Oğuz, Ertunç Şenkay and Erdal Kahraman, and Mevlüt Koçak edited. The music is credited to Oğuz Abadan, Michael Rodach, Can Hakgüder and Cahit Berkay.

DirectorOrhan Oğuz, Memduh Ün, Barış Pirhasan, Atıf Yılmaz, Ali Özgentürk
Production companySinema Vakfı
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Cast

Mahir Günşiray Mahir Günşiray Actor · 66 years old Sinan Ülkü Duru Ülkü Duru Actor · 69 years old Gül Türkan Şoray Türkan Şoray Actor · 81 years old Mehpare Ali Poyrazoğlu Ali Poyrazoğlu Actor · 80 years old Adnan Aytaç Arman Aytaç Arman Actor · died at 69 Tunç (Traitor) Nilüfer Açıkalın Nilüfer Açıkalın Actor · 59 years old Ceren (Snow White) Sumru Yavrucuk Sumru Yavrucuk Actor · 65 years old Ayten Uncuoğlu Actor · 80 years old Civan Canova Civan Canova Actor · died at 67 Özge Barut Sevda Ferdağ Sevda Ferdağ Actor · died at 81 Olgun Şimşek Olgun Şimşek Actor · 55 years old Adem Özcan Deniz Özcan Deniz Actor · 54 years old Cemal İpek Tuzcuoğlu İpek Tuzcuoğlu Actor · 55 years old Sema Tarık Günersel

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

Seeing masters like Atıf Yılmaz and Memduh Ün in the same credits as younger directors is a pleasure in itself. Yer Çekimli Aşklar brings different generations of Turkish cinema together under the Sinema Vakfı banner, and Türkan Şoray's presence in the cast means something extra to anyone who loves Yeşilçam. Segment titles drawn from fairy tales and everyday life give the film a warm, literary air, and even a title that likens love to gravity recalls the poetic names of the old films. Joint ventures where master and apprentice share the same screen are sadly rare.

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

Five directors, five screenwriters, three cinematographers and a single editor: Yer Çekimli Aşklar is a rarely tried anthology model in Turkish cinema. That plurality is the film's most interesting feature, since it lets you see side by side how directors from different generations approach the theme of love. But the same plurality is also its weakness: in my view the differences in style and quality between segments are marked, and it lacks a strong framing idea to hold the anthology together. Mevlüt Koçak's editing keeps the transitions smooth, yet some stories are overshadowed by others. Still, it is a valuable record that takes the spirit of experiment seriously and shows what Turkish cinema was searching for in the nineties.

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

With segments that set fairy-tale names beside everyday life, the film offers an interesting cross-section of how love and relationships were told in the mid-nineties. Having Snow White and Kazandibi, a humble milk pudding, in the same film sets up from the start a tension between romantic fantasy and ordinary, kitchen-scented reality. That the production is also listed as political shows that its love stories were not imagined apart from the social questions of the time. And names from the literary world such as Onat Kutlar and Zeynep Avcı in the credits make it the joint product of a whole cultural milieu.

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