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Cosmos (Kosmos)

Cosmos (Kosmos)

Movie · 2009 · 5 people

Reha Erdem wrote and directed Kosmos (Cosmos), a Turkish-Bulgarian drama produced by Atlantik Film. It opened across Turkey on April 16, 2010. At the 46th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival it won four awards, including the Golden Orange for Best Film, shared with Bornova Bornova, and at the 2010 Yerevan International Film Festival it took the Golden Apricot for best feature.

Kosmos is a thief who works miracles. He arrives weeping, as if fleeing someone, in a timeless snowbound border town filmed in Kars, rescues a boy drowning in the river and is at once accepted as a miracle worker. Played by Sermet Yeşil, he is far from ordinary: he is never seen eating or sleeping, lives on tea and sugar eaten by the handful, and can sit like a bird on the thinnest branches of tall trees. Strikingly frank, he says he is after love, and a strange closeness grows between him and Neptün (Türkü Turan), the sister of the boy he saved.

Small shop robberies begin after he arrives. As miracles and thefts chase each other, the sick seek his healing, until misfortunes make everyone drift away. Serkan Keskin, Saygın Soysal, Nadir Sarıbacak and Hakan Altuntaş (Yahya) also appear. Florent Herry shot the film.

DirectorReha Erdem
Production companyAtlantik Film
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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

In Kosmos, Reha Erdem chooses the rhythm of a folk tale over a conventional plot. The snowbound border town filmed in Kars becomes an abstract stage where time and place blur, and Florent Herry's cinematography does most of the work of that abstraction. Sermet Yeşil's Kosmos, perched like a bird on thin branches and living on handfuls of sugar, is a physical, almost choreographed performance. A structure in which miracles and thefts chase each other deliberately smudges the line between goodness and crime. Still, the recurring motifs sometimes dilute the spell, and a tighter edit would have sharpened several stretches. It is easy to see why it took Best Film at the Golden Orange: an ambitious, singular piece that demands a great deal of its audience.

Action & Thriller Fan Puts pace, tension and set pieces first; little patience for slow drama.

Kosmos is not my kind of film. There is a thief and a run of robberies in town, but don't expect any tension from that. The film never hurries; scenes are long and the talk is strange and poetic. The snowy Kars landscapes and a man perched in the trees do stick with you, I'll admit. But at its great length it is a real test of patience for anyone after pace. Watch it if you want something different; if you want thrills, look elsewhere.

Yeşilçam Nostalgic A viewer raised on the classics, looking for warm storytelling and strong acting.

Kosmos has the familiar air of old folk tales: a stranger arrives weeping from afar, saves a boy from drowning in the river, and the town at once takes him for a miracle worker. To an eye used to the warm, plain storytelling of Yeşilçam, Reha Erdem's language may feel distant at first; things move by images rather than by cause and effect. Yet there is a delicate feeling hidden in the innocence with which Kosmos tells everyone he is after love, and in his strange closeness with Neptün. Sermet Yeşil and Türkü Turan give this fable a heart. A film that rewards those who look at it patiently.

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