Süt (2008) [Re-UP]

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Date: March 28, 2015

Sut (Milk) (2008)
DVD9 | VIDEO_TS | PAL 16:9 | 01:39:30 | 5,66 Gb
Audio: Turkish AC3 5.1/2.0 @ 448/192 Kbps | Subs: English, German, French
Genre: Art-house, Drama

Director: Semih Kaplanoglu
Stars: Melih Selcuk, Basak Köklükaya, Riza Akin

Recent high school graduate Yusuf is uncertain about his future in the provincial countryside. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and he is starting to be published in obscure literary journals but, for the time being, he continues working for his mother's village milk business. Up until now, Yusuf's widowed mother Zehra has focused all her attention on her only child. Still a young and beautiful woman, Zehra is having a discreet relationship with the town station master. His mother's affair and being named unfit for military service due to a childhood illness, make Yusuf even more anxious about his impending transition to manhood. Will young Yusuf be able to handle the changes to his peaceful existence? Can he survive on poetry and working alongside his mother in her small-time milk business? Or will he be forced to move to the big city or seek a job in one of the many factories threatening the unspoiled landscape?

IMDB

This is the Second Part of 'The Yusuf Trilogy'
First part -> Yumurta / Egg (2007)
Third part -> Bal (Honey) (2010)

Painfully slow but at the same time a resonant, elegiac coming of age story, the second installment in Turkish arthouse director Semih Kaplanoglu’s Yusuf trilogy shows him to be something of a magic-realist Terence Davies. But with its overlong shots in which almost nothing happens, this Venice competition entry represents a tough ride for audiences and, like his last film Egg (Yumurta), is likely to be more of a festival workhorse than a theatrical prospect.


Milk is cineaste to its marrow, working on a poetic as much as narrative level that owes debts to directors like Andrej Tarkovsky. The director has chosen to film his bildungsroman trilogy backwards in time: so Milk takes up the story of Egg’s adult protagonist, Yusuf, at the end of his school years, just before he moved to Istanbul. The third film in the series, Honey, will deal with Yusuf’s childhood.


Milk opens with a striking sequence in which a snake emerges from the mouth of a young peasant woman who has been suspended upside down from a tree over a pan of boiling milk. Like much else in the film, this rural exorcism is never explained. Instead the film follows beetle-browed dreamer Yusuf (Selcuk), who has just left school and is at a (very) loose end. Yusuf helps his single mother Zehra (a compelling Koklukaya) sell the milk and cheese she makes on their small dairy farm near Tire, but his real ambition is to be a poet - and he’s overjoyed when a small literary magazine publishes one of his works.


Coming of age, for Yusuf, involves the trauma of seeing his mother begin to date the local station master; being called up for military service, but rejected on medical grounds; and meeting a girl with similar literary tastes in an Izmir bookshop. But neither Zehra nor Yusuf’s romantic prologues are followed up; Kaplanoglu seems to pull back from narrative closure, preferring to pile on symbols (milk; snakes; a huge catfish that Yusuf catches with his bare hands) that the audience can run with or just treat as background decor. Certain scenes (an encounter with a fellow poet who works in a coal mine; another centring on some apartment dwellers’ rejection of Yusuf’s milk deliveries) hint at the uneasy modernisation rural Anatolia.


Milk is exquisitely shot and lit; even when Yusuf has a seizure and comes off his bright red motorbike, it’s in a very pretty part of the countryside. And the intelligent, busy sound design supports the trouble-in-paradise thrust of Kaplanoglu’s elegy, mixing birdsong, cicada whine and cowbells in with more menacing industrial sounds and traffic roars.
ScreenDaily

This fourth feature from the director of Angel’s Fall (EIFF 2005) begins with a compelling sequence that culminates with a woman being suspended from a tree over a cauldron of boiling milk and expelling a live snake from her mouth. This is offered without comment and constitutes one of the many strange and poetic silences that permeate Kaplanoglu’s work. His characters are often hemmed in by circumstance and desperate to escape and this quality links Yusuf with the protagonist of Angel’s Fall, who yearns to leave her father’s house.


Yusuf (Selcuk) wants to write poetry, but he is seemingly condemned to a rural existence, helping his widowed mother sell the produce from their land and animals: handmade white cheese, walnuts, pomegranates, milk. When he asks his former teacher for help to publish his poetry, he discovers the older man is a washed-up drunk. When Yusuf visits a friend who has found work in the local mine, there is a poignancy to the pan that takes in his friend’s rough, filthy work clothes and how it contrasts with his eager clutching of the literary magazine that has published some of Yusuf’s work. There is a strong sense of a community of rural youth yearning for something else, searching the horizon and finding only a pit in the ground or the endless round of market day and milk delivery. When Yusuf travels to Izmir for a medical exam, he briefly meets a student and as they converse, it is clear their origins are different but a love of poetry and literature and a sense of intellectual curiosity unites them.


There are many rich images on offer here: Yusuf devouring a pomegranate, the seeds and juice dripping from his hands; his discovery of a coffee cup placed upside down in its saucer - a suggestion that his mother has been considering her future and her fortune and is thinking of marrying again. Following the opening sequence, the film proceeds in a reasonably straightforward fashion, until Yusuf suffers an accident and then his actions begin to take on a distinctly dream-like quality. He follows his mother, convinced she is having an affair. The film’s final moments are a series of fragmented, transformative images that reinforce Yusuf as a figure who bursts with ideas and potential, but who has ultimately been robbed of his opportunities. Milk promises to be part of trilogy of films that includes Kaplanoglu’s previous feature Egg from 2007.
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