{"id":509,"date":"2013-10-14T13:42:18","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T13:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2013-10-14T13:43:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T13:43:56","slug":"uzak-ihtimal-wrong-rosary-review-from-rotterdam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/uzak-ihtimal-wrong-rosary-review-from-rotterdam\/","title":{"rendered":"Uzak \u0130htimal (Wrong Rosary) review from Rotterdam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OVg3X3LOgGo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They say love is blind, and viewers of this wry, low-key, gentle-paced,notably chaste &#8216;romance&#8217; (whose protagonists exercise such demure restraint that it makes Brief Encounter look like Last Tango In Paris) mustn&#8217;t to examine the plot too closely if they want to fall under its refined spell. Predicated on a series of unlikely events and even more improbable coincidences (rather than a teeming metropolis of 20 million, Wrong Rosary&#8217;s Istanbul, while pungently evoked, seems more like a small village) the soapy script relates the very slow-burning attraction that develops between a lovelorn muezzin (Nadir Saribacak) and his meek-and-mild neighbour (Gorkem Yeltan). The latter is an ultra-mousy Catholic spinster who was \u2013 for reasons revealed during the movie&#8217;s wildly melodramatic prologue \u2013 brought up in a convent, and has plans to become a nun.<\/p>\n<p>Shot on classy, slighty dusty\/milky high-definition DV, this character-based charmer tackles some weighty and topical issues relating to cultural and religious divides, but does so with a strain of gentle humour that prevents things from getting too preachy or worthy. A little more background on the muezzin&#8217;s role in the mosque and the community might not have gone amiss, however, as we don&#8217;t get much sense of how transgressive his behaviour might be regarded by his &#8217;employers.&#8217; Nor does the nature of his relationship with Islam really come into proper focus, instead his status as muezzin coming across primarily as a tricky \u2013 if somewhat nebulous \u2013 obstacle standing in the way of his heart&#8217;s true desires.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review By Neil Young, Jigsaw Lounge, 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can watch Uzak \u0130htimal (Wrong Rosary) <a href=\"http:\/\/filmpot.com\/en\/film\/wrong-rosary\">on iTunes in many countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; They say love is blind, and viewers of this wry, low-key, gentle-paced,notably chaste &#8216;romance&#8217; (whose protagonists exercise such demure restraint that it makes Brief Encounter look like Last Tango In Paris) mustn&#8217;t to examine the plot too closely if they want to fall under its refined spell. Predicated on a series of unlikely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"twitterCardType":"","cardImageID":0,"cardImage":"","cardTitle":"","cardDesc":"","cardImageAlt":"","cardPlayer":"","cardPlayerWidth":0,"cardPlayerHeight":0,"cardPlayerStream":"","cardPlayerCodec":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[107,243,241,242,187,191],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-filmreview","tag-itunes","tag-mahmut-fazil","tag-neil-young","tag-rotterdam-film-festival","tag-uzak-ihtimal","tag-wrong-rosary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":516,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/516"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmpot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}