Marion has one of the rarest jobs available to women these days: she’s an airline pilot, a captain at that. During a holiday trip to Turkey with her longtime affair Raphael, she meets Baran, a Kurdish hustler, who manages to intrigue Marion enough for her to begin… something with him. Baran’s aims are clear: Leave a home where he’s less than a second-class citizen, get an FRG passport, start a new life abroad – while Marion’s hopes and wishes remain opaque, a mystery, above all to herself. Baran gets his wishes – Marion gets pregnant – Raphael gets frustrated.
İlker Çatak’s breakthrough film is carried by extraordinary performances of very different registers that perfectly reflect their respective character’s place in the world: newcomer Oğulcan Arman Uslu seduces the viewer with fragility and neediness, while acting axiom-daredevil Anne Ratte-Polle perplexes and devastates with a wild mix of despair and desire, will for change and fear of loss, control and a need to lose herself – all observed with quite calm, patience and generosity. 21st century European life at its rawest.
Olaf Möller