Egg

6.5
2007 1 hr 37 min Drama

Poet Yusuf (35-38) returns to his childhood hometown, which he hadn't visited for years, upon his mother's death. He is faced with a neglected, crumbling house. Ayla, a young girl (17-19) awaits him there. Yusuf has been unaware of the existence of this distant relation who had been living with his mother for five years; He stays by his dead mother's bedside for a while on the morning of his return...

  • Cast:
    Nejat İşler , Saadet Işıl Aksoy , Ufuk Bayraktar , Tülin Özen , Cengiz Bozkurt , Gülçin Santırcıoğlu

Reviews

Nonureva
2007/11/09

Really Surprised!

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FeistyUpper
2007/11/10

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

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Console
2007/11/11

best movie i've ever seen.

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Kien Navarro
2007/11/12

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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split_chick2002
2007/11/13

it is of course a bit boring because it is a psychedelic kind of film and it is so contemporary..nowadays these kinda movies are a lot, not in Turkey but in everywhere around Europe.. I hate psychedelic movies and cant even watch but this movie had something and it kept me going. Cinematography was good for an independent film. İt was a very low budget film so I think before making any comment , should consider these kinda points. Shouldn't have a point of view before watching the other 2 movies which complete yumurta ,as a series movies I thing the other ones will be so much more meaningful because this one was about death..the darkest theme the darkest topic. one of the other ones topic is birth so..

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ebaser
2007/11/14

Being a film school graduate sometimes blinds my perception. i try to shut the negative part of my brain. but if the first 10 minutes is empty i start catching the bad. Even though the opening scene was a hint of a bad movie I forced my self to finish Yumurta. the second scene in the bookshop was a mystery. i guess there was a story. but the long shots are so boring you get disconected. i read the synopsis after watching it. Even then the movie didn't make any sense. you cant expect us to understand you story if you don't tell it. It looked like there was no script just minutes of still photos. So, don't waste your time with this one. Don't let the awards trick you. This is part of a trilogy. the next one is Sut (Milk). i haven't seen it yet but i heard it tops this one.

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Reydeler
2007/11/15

I liked Semih Kaplanoglu's last film "Melegin Dususu" which had a really great performance by Tulin Ozen. However, his latest film "Yumurta" goes absolutely nowhere.Nejat Isler is a very charismatic actor who can command the screen as we have seen in "Barda", but in this film he is given little to do other than stare into space. There is very little dialog and even that is stilted and boring. This can't hold a candle to the greatness of last year's Golden Orange winner "Kader". There are few redeeming qualities about the film, namely the cinematography and soundtrack. Otherwise this is a real letdown.

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yenalorman
2007/11/16

the movie has just won the best film award in Golden Orange festival, and i was able to watch the movie in the festival.the story is a simple one. we see a man living in a big city and somehow isolated a bit from the small hometown and the people living there. One of the people is his mother.One day his mother dies and the man returns to hometown for funeral. There he meets with the girl who was taking care of his mum.The man who don t care about life, who do not cry, discharges with a funny coincidence.With stable and wide frames, long sequences and clever jokes, this movie deserves watching.

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