CONFESSION

CONFESSION (İTİRAF), 2001

Turkey| Digital Betacam, Color, 90’| Turkish

Cast: Taner Birsel, Başak Köklükaya, İskender Altın, Miraç Eronat, Gülgün Kutlu

Harun, a rich and successful engineer, finds out that his wife, Nilgun, is having an affair. At first, he is reluctant to confront her and hides what he knows. Time passes with a painfully slow pace; the uncertainty is unbearable. Finally, he decides to make Nilgun confess. The night turns out to be long. As the couple, who have been married for seven years, proceed into the darkness of human-ness, it becomes impossible for them to recognize each other. Pleading mixes with violence; tears with screams.

“Demirkubuz’s success comes not only from purging cinema of its ‘artifices’, but also from producing a brilliant example of minimalist cinema... Setting aside almost all the possibilities offered by lighting, music, and editing and using only his camera, he directly reflects in his films the expectations, difficulties, outbursts, and tensions in life. Instead of a structure in which he would establish, develop, then solve the conflict, he prefers one with several beginnings and endings and several sharp turns. He virtually attempts to tell not just a slice of life but the entirety of a life.” - Uygar Şirin