Love Me Instead

2021 [TURKISH]

Drama

Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 60%
IMDb Rating 7.0/10 10 2926 2.9K

Plot summary

Accompanied by a ward, a prisoner travels to his hometown to reconnect with his daughter and make amends, but a tragic truth mars his journey.



August 07, 2023 at 04:55 AM

Director

Mehmet Ada Öztekin

Top cast

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1.12 GB
1280*534
Turkish 2.0
NR
24 fps
2 hr 4 min
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1920*802
Turkish 5.1
NR
24 fps
2 hr 4 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Bgappl07 7 / 10

Changes for Turkey?

The acting was superb cinematography was fine music was fine a little long but what I really couldn't get over is the whole moral code of a father protecting his daughter now I have lived in the Middle East a large part of my life and I've also known a lot of Turkish people both in Istanbul and in the states they are very strong in their convictions in general but this morality play Has to be updated -even for turkey It plays like something more from maybe the third or fourth century. Like Lebanon turkey was once a very modern state for that area.

Reviewed by me_is_we 8 / 10

Complex yet interesting

The story started a little too slow. I had many questions in the beginning, as the characters and the mise-en-scene of some flashbacks were not fully explained. The director definitely kept us in the dark for too long. But after my questions found answers - somewhere half way during the movie - I started to feel more empathy for the characters. I LOVED the acting; Yonca's acting especially! And what I LOVED the most about this film is the portray of the location i.e. How the residents live, walk, talk and behave. Using real residents from this deprived area really gave this film a magic touch.

Great job director!

Reviewed by yusufpiskin 7 / 10

Sarp Akkaya

Turkish drama film directed by Mehmet Ada Öztekin and starring Sarp Akkaya, Ercan Kesal and Songul Oden, scheduled to be released on Netflix in 2021.

Akkaya and Kesal are amazing actors. The story is touching. The movie sticks to itself. It's an average drama and good at it.

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