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Rina

Rina

Movie · 2010 · 15 people

Şenol Sönmez directed the 2010 Turkish film Rina, which weaves an emotional drama together with comedy. It opened on April 9, 2010, stayed in cinemas for eleven weeks and took roughly 256,000 lira at the box office. Its starting point is a comparison: the solitude of an island resembles the loneliness a person carries. The story asks what we set aside while chasing our dreams: we may own a home, a car and a career yet never do what we really wanted.

The action takes place on an island. Three childhood friends, Ali, Ömer and Umut, dream of opening a winery. Ali works on the beach and waits every summer for the girl he loves. Ömer develops his own wine formulas while working in his father's vineyard. Umut is wholeheartedly devoted to Zehra, who weaves baskets. Paşhan Yılmazel (Ömer), Çağlar Çorumlu (Umut), Eray Türk (Ali) and Merve Sevi (Zehra) lead the cast, with Cezmi Baskın, Cüneyt Türel, Ayten Uncuoğlu and Erdal Tosun.

Sönmez wrote the script with Levent Pala and Ali Erkan Ersezer. Cem Timürlenk and Bülent Korkmaz produced; the music is by Ender Gündüzlü, the cinematography by Kadir Volkan Öncel and Veysel Tekşahin, and the editing by Engin Öztürk. The film was made by Rina Yapım and distributed by Özen Film.

DirectorŞenol Sönmez
Production companyRina Yapım
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Cinephile Looks at script, editing and directing choices; keeps a distance from formula films.

Rina sets out the likeness between an island's solitude and the loneliness a person carries as its thesis from the start. The risk with a metaphor announced this openly is that the images and situations end up stating the idea again and again instead of showing it. The structure, running the three friends' stories in parallel while balancing comedy and drama, also struggles to give each strand enough depth; that diffuseness is what hurts it most. On the other hand, the island setting gives the cinematography strong ground to work with, and that atmosphere is the film's most lasting asset. A small-scale film without grand ambitions, but sincere in intent.

History & Society Lens Asks about the period, the social background and what the work reflects.

The question the film asks touches an anxiety familiar to the urban middle class of the 2000s: owning a home, a car and a career yet never doing what you really wanted. Rina asks it far from the big city, on an island, and characters who work on the beach, labor in a father's vineyard or weave baskets make the world of seasonal, local work visible. The friends' winery dream can be read as a wish to turn a local trade into an enterprise, a search for meaning where you already are rather than an escape. Its box office was modest, but it is an interesting case for anyone thinking about provincial life and generational questions.

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

A gently paced film that mixes comedy with emotional drama. At its center is three friends' dream of opening a winery, which some families may not feel comfortable with when watching with small children. Its message about friendship, love and following your dreams does mean something for young people, though. Better suited to high-school-age teens and adults; the gentle pace is not one the little ones will sit through.

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