Though it is the Academy Awards French entry
for Best Foreign Film, Writer/Director Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang
is a wonderfully entertaining Turkish story that takes place in a rural
town along the Black Sea in northern Turkey.
Five rebellious young girls from adolescence
to mid-teen try to break away from the fundamentalist patriarchy of their uncle
(Ayberk Pekcan), who keeps adding to the household security, virtually imprisoning
them until he tries to marry them off.
It is a tale that is simultaneously hilarious
and horrifying because of the disgusting culture in which young women are treated
like property without rights.
The heroine becomes the youngest of the
sisters (Gunes Sensoy), who engineers a triumphant escape.
I heartily recommend this film and urge you
to see it on Netflix, if you can’t find it in a theater.
I give Mustang a 4.5 out of 5.
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