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"Oh Belinda" is a new fantasy comedy feature, directed by Deniz Yorulmazer. starring Neslihan Atagül Doğulu as 'Serap', Serkan Çayoğlu as 'Suat', Necip Memili, Meral Çetinkaya, Beril Pozam, Efe Tunçer, Gamze Karaduman, Sacide Taşaner, Kamil Güler and Anıl Çelik, streaming April 7, 2023 on Netflix:

".... a young actor’s perfect life takes a madcap turn when she agrees to star in a commercial and suddenly gets transported to her character’s world. The actor finds herself in the character’s life just as described in the script but now it’s her reality.

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"Oh Belinda" is a new fantasy comedy feature, directed by Deniz Yorulmazer. starring Neslihan Atagül Doğulu as 'Serap', Serkan Çayoğlu as 'Suat', Necip Memili, Meral Çetinkaya, Beril Pozam, Efe Tunçer, Gamze Karaduman, Sacide Taşaner, Kamil Güler and Anıl Çelik, streaming April 7, 2023 on Netflix:

".... a young actor’s perfect life takes a madcap turn when she agrees to star in a commercial and suddenly gets transported to her character’s world. The actor finds herself in the character’s life just as described in the script but now it’s her reality.

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Three years ago, Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s handsomely made yet exoticizing “Mustang” reinforced a Western idea of rural Turkish life and was received with general acclaim away from home, proving that a filmmaker’s local origins don’t exclude an internalized brand of orientalism. That’s even truer with “Sibel,” Çagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti’s third feature, the first one shot in Zencirci’s country of birth. Weaving together folklore, gender roles and a fitful kind of emancipation in the story of a mute young woman desperate to counter the ostracism of her fellow villagers, the writer-director couple have created an attractive package that doesn’t hold up to close inspection. Even so, thanks to the extensive use of an intriguing whistle language, and given the way it buttresses Western narrative notions of Asia Minor, the film has a good chance of garnering international art-house attention.

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