Just another day at the office. But like his cop counterparts in Hollywood films, Sedat is married to his job, and so his own family suffer. Besides, he’s gotten involved with a younger woman, Mine (Selma Ergeç), who had once been the lover of a former political prisoner. Mine has disappeared, and now Sedat is trying to figure out what happened, an investigation that seems to be leading back to his own culpability and the criminality of the regime he serves.
With both modern and traditional authority compromised, with neither religion nor reason offering a refuge from evil, what is one to do? For Ferzan Ozpetek, a Turkish-born filmmaker working in Italy, the only recourse seems to be a community of like-minded exiles and outcasts.
As he did in Le fate ignoranti|The Ignorant Fairies (2001), Ozpetek in SATURNO CONTRO|SATURN IN OPPOSITION (2006; March 29 at 7:15 pm) cobbles together a hodge-podge alternative family of artists, gay couples, drug addicts, and other high-minded folks. Gathered together in the refectory-sized kitchen of the famous writer who is their patron and guru, the jolly congregation inspire one of their number to reflect, gee, I wish things could be like this forever! Famous last words. For Ozpetek, the opposition of fate is a given and inescapable. But the consolation of a just and loving society is within our control.
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