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Zachary George Najarian-Najafi
22Apr13
A timeless tale of larger than life themes: love, betrayal, sibling rivalry, class struggle. This is a great movie; you can feel the dust of the earth in your mouth watching it. It's bold and expressionistic but also gritty and violent and sensual. And of course there's some utter suckling, too. Still, Erksan's other movies seem even cooler and weirder!
Jimmy_Dean
28May12
An example of superfine acting, this film is one of the prides of Turkish Cinema.
Daniel Dawson
17Jul11
Winner of the 1964 Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, Dry Summer is a tense story of love and betrayal with wonderful performances throughout. It speaks of greed through the microcosmic Osman, whilst presenting an allegorical argument against the capitalist ideal. Tender, violent and superbly written.
Sancar Seckiner
7May11
Metin Erksan is one of the leading profiles in Turkish Cinema. Susuz Yaz-Dry Summer is one of his most important works.
Rafael Kino
21Jan11
Masterpiece. Not plot points, but plot images. Perfect cinema. There's a single shot that elevates it beyond everything else - a camera rolls in the green fields, round and round like a grieving woman. Except the woman is standing up.
LUCHANOV
16Dec10
was enjoying the movie up to the scene where they filmed the shotgun shooting of a dog. it was a real live shooting. yeah i know - different time and place compared to modern standards - no harm of animals etc etc. pretty much turned me off after that.
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Mcfluffin
16Nov10
The story is a good one, and would have been poignant if not for the quality of the acting, which was a little unconvincing. Osman's brother and sister-in-law seemed to tolerate all his scheming, pervy little ways without question, which is odd. Interesting though, except for the scene where the dog was shot, which I (a modern day, softy vegetarian) found a bit disturbing, but I guess the 60s were a different time
candercander
14Nov10
Beautiful movie with a powerful storyline. Like "Toni", by Jean Renoir, it is an intense loving triangle story. The conflict about water is universal and present.
Maru Sanchez
20Oct10
Relly fine movie. Great story, intense climax and fantastic cinematography. Seems simple but is complex and the characters are really well defined.
Rich Haber
8Oct10
Fine restoration, thank Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation. In the vengeance genre, this one ain't too shabby.
Kerem Soyyılmaz
22Aug10
Akin is super right, camera use is very poor in most turkish films. Use of sound is also successfull.
Akin Ercan
9Jul10
The camera work of Ali Uğur is really way beyond its time regarding other Turkish films of this period. A Masterpiece!
Dailyllama
22Jun10
Loved the raw look at the unsophisticated emotional life of the 'real' people; absorbing without being 'studious'!
Gordon Buno-Basire
24Feb10
We're very fortunate that Scorsece's foundation was able to preserve such a captivating movie. Lush in its aesthetics, and exhilarating in its tensions and climax. I'm certainly watching this one again and again.
Emre Kırmızı
18Feb10
thanks to Scorsese's world cinema foundation and Fatih Akin's pick for restoring this movie,it looked great at the MOMA and should be seen in a theater. we should not buy into computerization of the medium and the experience.
