Director of My Only Sunshine and Kosmos, Reha Erdem’s recent film Jîn depicts us a teenage girl guerrilla who
escapes from her Kurdish freedom fighter life. The film’s protagonist Jîn (Deniz
Hasgüler), in Kurdish meaning life and woman, is almost in a fairy-tale like
film, with her red scarf reminding of Little Red Riding Hood, or with her
dream-like images of her in nature at night.
The stunning landscape,
which in reality was shot in Kaz Mountains and Mersin, shows us the destruction
of mankind. The animals she encounters throughout her journey- a donkey, a bear
and a stag had influenced by the bombs and missiles.
Jîn is an important film in the midst of Turkish-Kurdish political conflict
where it doesn’t show us a heroic ‘side’ or tries to answer to this conflict. In
fact, the protagonist Jîn is first of all a woman, then a guerrilla. She steals
some clothes and tries to mingle in to the society where she has been sexually harassed
and tried to be raped several times which leads her to go back to the mountains
at the end.
Through Florent Herry’s
lens and Hildur Guðnadóttir’s score Jîn
is visually stunning film which revolves around woman, misery and conflict. It is a political film due to its subject, but most of all it is a Reha Erdem cinema where he again takes women in the center.
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