Mustang

Dir: Deniz Gamze Erguven

Turkey / France / Qatar / Germany

2015

97 mins

15

Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the recent Oscars, actress and director Deniz Gamze Ergüven’s Mustang is a heady, emotional and deeply personal story and a paean to female power.

It’s set at the start of summer in a village in northern Turkey, when Lale (the youngest sister, through whose innocent eyes the film is seen) and her four sisters are spotted playing with boys while at the beach; and the supposed debauchery of their games causes a scandal with unintended consequences.

Forbidden from leaving the house by their strict uncle and grandmother, they are forced to cook and do housework instead of going to school; then, their grandmother decides to start marrying them off. But the sisters – driven by the same insatiable desire and common understanding of their right to freedom – rebel in their own ways.

Telling a very particular, character-based story, Ergüven’s incendiary film is nonetheless a parable for the more widespread need for female education and independence; brilliantly acted by its affecting young cast.

Booking Information

Distributor

Curzon Film

Telephone:
020 7240 5353

Email:
james.king@curzon.com

Release Date

13 May 2016

Blu-ray / DVD Bookings

BFI

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