İki Genç Kız (2005)

Directed by

Kutluğ Ataman

Genre

teen film, female buddy film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Turkey

Runtime

1h 47m

Rating

5.2 of 10 from 18 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two teenage girls from different backgrounds form an intense friendship that hints at romantic feelings. As they grow closer, pressures from society and their personal lives threaten to tear them apart.

intimatetensemelancholicslow-burnunsettlingemotionally chargedbittersweet

What happens

İki Genç Kız (The international working title is 2 Girls) is a 2005 Turkish film by Kutluğ Ataman that won a Golden Orange award. It was produced by Gulen Guler Hurley and stars Feride Çetin, Vildan Atasever, and Hülya Avşar. The film is based on Perihan Mağden's novel İki Genç Kızın Romanı (translated into English as 2 Girls), and it follows the novel's plot closely, although it diverges from it at some points. The film is about two teenage girls, Behiye (Feride Çetin) and Handan (Vildan Atasever), with contrasting characteristics and backgrounds, forming a close relationship with sexual implications. As they become closer and closer the relationship becomes more fragile, and the impossibility of the survival of their relationship becomes more evident over time. Economic, social, psychological, and sexual problems come in the way. Experimental band Replikas provided the music for the film, which was published in 2006 on the Film Müzikleri album. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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