Night of Silence

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Night of Silence

2012

1h 31m

Drama

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After a wedding ceremony for an arranged marriage, a 14-year-old bride is led to a bridal chamber and given instructions in nuptial customs by her sister-in-law.

Philip Kemp

Sight & Sound

Ilyas Salman as Damat and Dilan Aksüt as Gelin both give nuanced performances that invite our sympathy without recourse to easy pathos.

Jul 31, 2018

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Charlotte O'Sullivan

London Evening Standard

The colours are so vivid you ache to reach out and touch them). It's also painfully funny and full of surprises.

Rated: 3/5

Jun 28, 2013

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Thirza Wakefield

Little White Lies

By anybody's standards, this is tough and exposing territory, which makes it all the more impressive that Celik's human-inventions remain as luminously secretive as folklore.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 28, 2013

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Patrick Gamble

CineVue

Combine these deft directorial touches with two assured and captivating performances from the film's protagonists and you have a delicate, eloquent and subtly hard-hitting drama that belies its simple premise.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 26, 2019

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Siobhan Synnot

Scotsman

Two great performances hold together Reis Celik's slow-moving study of child brides ...

Rated: 3/5

Jul 29, 2013

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Philip Kemp

Total Film

Treating what could be a deeply distasteful subject with subtlety and restraint, Reis elik's intimate two-hander explores a fraught situation with sympathy and unexpected revelations ...

Rated: 4/5

Jul 2, 2013

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Night of Silence [Turkey, 2012] Amazing how something so distasteful was told in such charming and spectacular performances. 10/10

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Synopsis

After a wedding ceremony for an arranged marriage, a 14-year-old bride is led to a bridal chamber and given instructions in nuptial customs by her sister-in-law.

Director: Reis Çelik
Producer: Anil Celik
Screenwriter: Reis Çelik
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Turkish
Runtime: 1h 31m