Turkish writer-director Yesim Ustaoglu offers a parallel study of two women — a psychiatrist with a long-time live-in partner and a wife in a conservative, nearly tyrannical household — in…

Too much happens too many times in this potentially brilliant parable.

An aspiring writer returns to his native village in rural Turkey, where he becomes overwhelmed by his father’s debts.

Cenk has just arrived back to Istanbul from the United States. Suppressed love slowly begins to resurface after he encounters Ece, a woman whom he had a romantic relationship with…