βLifeβ Review: Turkeyβs Oscar Submission Loses the Plot on Toxic Masculinity
At the start of Turkish auteur Zeki Demirkubuzβs long-awaited and frustratingly miscalculated βLifeβ β the filmmakerβs first movie in seven years, now serving as Turkeyβs international feature submission to the Academy Awards βa young woman named Hicran flees the claws of an impending arranged marriage and goes into hiding. We learn as much, not from [β¦]