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A Funny Love Story (Komik Bir Aşk Hikayesi)

A Funny Love Story (Komik Bir Aşk Hikayesi) (translated)

Movie · 2011 · 16 people

Cüneyt Yosulçay directed the Turkish romantic comedy Komik Bir Aşk Hikayesi (A Funny Love Story). It is presented as a light love story that weaves fun and drama together. The screenplay was written by Aydoğan Temel, who also plays one of the leads. Ulaş Çobancı produced it and Özen Film distributed it.

The hero, Atilla, gradually lost his sight ten years ago after an illness and has been blind since. To add color to a life that has grown dull and inescapable, he decides to hire a caregiver. But the candidates are in for a surprise: Atilla receives those who come to his home not as a blind man but as someone confined to a wheelchair. When none of them convinces him, he returns to his loneliness and ends the short game. Just then the strikingly beautiful Leyla enters his life, and things get tangled. Arzu Yanardağ plays Leyla and Aydoğan Temel plays Atilla.

The music is by Murat Yaprak and Cengiz Ünal, the cinematography by Ümit Ardabak and Engin Saygılı, and the editing by Ferhat Yüksel.

DirectorCüneyt Yosulçay
A Funny Love Story (Komik Bir Aşk Hikayesi) A Funny Love Story (Komik Bir Aşk Hikayesi)

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Family Viewer Asks whether the whole household can watch it; cares about humor and heart.

A light romantic comedy about a blind man trying to bring some color back into his life. The subject is warm, and the love story looks like the kind a family can watch together. The game Atilla plays on the caregiver candidates could start a good conversation between adults and children: why would someone want to seem different from who they are? Because the film mixes fun with drama, some moments may be sad, which is worth knowing with younger viewers.

Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Aydoğan Temel writing the script and taking a lead role gives the film the feel of a personal project. The starting idea is clever: a blind man receiving caregiver candidates as if he were confined to a wheelchair could be the stuff of a subtle comedy about identity and role-play. The trouble is that, as the synopsis itself shows, the game is short-lived, and with Leyla's arrival the weight of the story shifts into a familiar romantic-comedy mold. The ambition to interweave fun and drama is also a trap that films unsure of their tone often fall into. The real question is whether the script carries that bright first idea all the way through; it deserved a bolder structure.

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By putting disability at the center of a romantic comedy, the film steps into territory Turkish cinema does not often explore. Atilla hiding his blindness and acting as if he used a wheelchair could raise a thought-provoking question about how society views different kinds of disability: which one do people pity more, and which do they shy away from? Loneliness and the need for care are real, everyday issues as well. Turning disability into a comic device means walking a fine line, and viewers will have to judge how carefully the film keeps to it.

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