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Black and White (2010)
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Original name: Siyah Beyaz
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A painter with a turbulent history, fiercely committed to his ideals and still averse to settling down despite his 70 years; a lawyer who packed in his job after suffering a heart attack and now pursues a quiet life looking after his pet snail; a doctor already disenchanted with his profession and now discarded by his wife; a career woman braving life on her own, who has made loneliness a life style. These characters are all patrons of Black & White, an Ankara bar that has been around for 25 years, and in a sense the bar is their last haven. The owner, meanwhile, is the irritable, easily offended but utterly lovable Faruk... Black & White is a film about the awareness of growing old, friendship, sensitivity and the finer details of life.
Style:
poignant, reflective, nostalgic
Plot:
friendship, loneliness, community, aging, companionship, nostalgia, slice of life, midlife crisis, humanism, melancholy, intimacy, realism, bittersweet, intimate, urban, loss, identity, retirement, bar
Time:
contemporary
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