Mustang, which is up for a foreign film oscar on sunday, scooped three awards including for best first feature film. Part of the answer is that the director grew up in france. Mustang is the perfect name for frances oscar nomination. The best 67 female film directors you need to know about. The repercussions of repressing teenage girls in the. Deniz gamze erguvens drama about five sisters got the cannes seal of.
Indeed, the mustang premiered not in clermonttonnerres native france but at the sundance film festival, and was developed in the creative laboratories at the fests. Female forces of resistance in moving film mustang kqed. Mustang director deniz gamze erguven on femininity in cinema. A comingofage drama directed deniz gamze erguven, it didnt lose anything in the translation, though. Mustang director on how frances turkishlanguage oscar submission straddles two cultures. The film has been in festivals in turkey and it was considered french. Deniz gamze erguven at an event for mustang 2015 tugba sunguroglu at an event for mustang 2015. Both are critically acclaimed dramas directed by women documenting the comingofage of five teenage sisters under close scrutiny for their behavior especially when it comes to their sexuality. Im sure many other people writing about this film are simply going to say that its a feminist film, but we need to move past labeling any film about women who arent subservient or typical as advocation and instead let the story breathe. Instead, the storyline of turkishfrench movie mustang, a first feature film by director deniz gamze erguven, turns the desire to marry off the. Both films feature five sisters virgins allamerican blondes traded for mustang s middle eastern brunettes whose social isolation and enforced confinement.
Mustang at the same time offers a laugh and a tear. The films reception speaks to a cultural divide that the director has been navigating for years. Mustang is a 2015 internationally coproduced drama film directed by turkish french film director deniz gamze erguven. Mustang director on how frances turkishlanguage oscar. Mustang created an interesting character drama that brought a ton of heart and comedy to what essentially was a tragedy. Its emotionally exhausting, beautiful and very unique in its subject. When i finished this film, it was completely embraced by france. It took me back to a time of adolescence, when your imagination took the front seat, and spending playful times with siblings and friends was filled with innocence. A directors fortnight award winner at this years cannes film festival and the french entry for best foreign language film in the 2016 academy awards, mustang captures the beginning of. Mustang is frances submission for the best foreignlanguage film. Of course some critics will argue that this movie might give viewers a wrong impression about turkey. It claimed the top prize in directors fortnight at cannes as well a european film award.
The story of the relationship between karamakate, an amazonian shaman and last survivor of his people, and two scientists who work together over the course of forty years to search the amazon for a sacred healing plant. Mustang was a boxoffice success in france, selling more than 500,000 tickets. The film is set in a remote turkish village and depicts the lives of five young orphaned sisters and the challenges they face growing up in a conservative society. Deniz gamze erguven born 4 june 1978 is a turkish french film director best known for her debut feature film mustang. The film is set in a remote turkish village and depicts the lives of five young orphaned sisters and challenges. Mustang is frances submission for the best foreignlanguage film oscar, but its a turkishlanguage film that required subtitles in its home country. Nevertheless, mustang is a gripping film, and one that ought to stir up a bit of controversy in turkey. Directed by the french turkish film director, deniz gamze erguven in 2015, mustang focuses on the story of five orphan girls who must face the strict and conservative culture of their village life when they are seen innocently playing with boys on a beach. Mustang begins with lale s saying in the voiceover. Mustang, frances oscar nomination for best foreign. The turkish french film director was at istanbuls beyoglu theater on oct.
Mustang is a 2015 internationally coproduced drama film directed by turkish french film director deniz gamze erguven in her feature debut. Upon mustang s debut, it received the cesar award for best first feature film. The film s reception speaks to a cultural divide that the director has been navigating for years. Often compared to the virgin suicides by sofia coppola, mustang is an honest look at womanhood in turkeys conservative society. With mustang, a director breaks free of cultural confines. Its about five young girls who break a lot of rules, from marriage contracts to learning how to drive a car. Mustang is the french entry for best foreign language film in the 2016. Eu 2015 european parliament president martin schulz announced that mustang had won the 2015 european parliament lux prize for cinema at a ceremony in the chamber in strasbourg at noon on tuesday.
Mustang is the winner of this years lux film prize news. The word mustang, which is also the evocative title of turkishfrench filmmaker deniz gamze erguvens stirring first feature, conjures vivid images of. The film is set in a remote turkish village and depicts the lives of five young orphaned sisters and challenges they face growing up as girls in a conservative society. With mustang, a director breaks free of cultural confines the. Mustang ranch the mustang ranch is a brothel in storey county, nevada, about 20 miles 32 km east of reno. The director of the acclaimed film, mustang, erguven is about to breakout with the anne hathaway vehicle the lifeboat which will be released later this year. The film by francoturkish director deniz gamze erguven, tells the story of five sisters in rural turkey forced into arranged marriages. French film awards honour diversity in fatima, mustang. The turkish director talks about her oscarnominated film mustang and. Mustang is frances official submission in the best foreign language film category at the 88th academy awards. Then how did mustang become the french film nomination in this years oscar category of best foreign language film.
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