![]() The city is an oppressive presence, especially for Nurcan as she ventures tentatively outside and takes the ferry across the bay. Akcay sets the action during midwinter, when the streets are drenched with rain, the skies gray, the buildings towering threateningly over the characters. ![]() Traditionally speaking, Izmir is known as a sun-drenched city, the gateway to Aegean holiday resorts such as Kusadasi and Foca. The film is deliberately shot in washed-out colors, reflecting the grayness of the characters' existence. The sequence where he breaks down and cries on his grandmother's (Mihriban Er's) knee is particularly affecting. ![]() Ilker tries to act tough by smoking pot and making love to his best friend's mother but in truth he is looking for some kind of a role-model. Feride looks for a way out through betrothal to Gulaga (Sevkan Serinkaya), but Nurcan thoroughly disapproves. There is no real possibility of resolution: Nurcan will always remain imprisoned by her circumstances, while the offspring have to try to cope as best they can. Deniz Akcay's film offers a relentlessly unsentimental take on her material. The only way Nurcan can cope is to clean her apartment every day her obsession becomes almost all-consuming as she claims to have always too much to do. She finds the job almost impossible: Ilker keeps quitting the house and staying at a friend's Feride yearns to escape while Ozge tries her best to remain loyal. Set in the rain-washed streets of an Izmir winter, KOKSUZ (NOBODY'S HOME) focuses on the life of single mother Nurcan (Lale Basar) faced with the responsibility of looking after three children - thirty- two-year-old Feride (Ahu Turkpence), seventeen-year-old Ilker (Savas Alp Basar), and the youngest daughter Ozge (Melis Ebeler). ![]()
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