Romantik Komedi 2: Bekarlığa Veda

Romantic Comedy 2: Farewell to Bachelorhood (Romantik Komedi 2: Bekarlığa Veda)

Movie · 2013 · 8 people

Erol Özlevi made his feature film debut by directing Romantic Comedy 2: Farewell to Bachelorhood, a 2013 Turkish romantic comedy. Serving as a sequel to the 2010 hit Romantic Comedy, the production brings back much of the original ensemble. Written by Aslı Zengin and Ceren Aslan, it opened in cinemas in February 2013.

While Esra (Sedef Avcı) throws herself into wedding preparations, Didem (Sinem Kobal) realizes she is the last unmarried woman in her circle of friends. Alarmed, she devises various schemes to push her longtime boyfriend Cem (Engin Altan Düzyatan) toward proposing. Cem, however, is absorbed in his new acting project and its glamorous co-star Gözde (Özge Ulusoy), which sends the jealous Didem into secretly tailing him. During her surveillance she discovers that the men are throwing a bachelor party at a hotel in Antalya. Determined to find out what really goes on at such a party, the women plot to infiltrate the hotel disguised as belly dancers, setting off a string of comic and romantic misadventures.

The cast also includes Cemal Hünal, Ali Ersan Duru, Gökçe Özyol and Kubilay Penbeklioğlu.

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

A light, colourful romantic comedy and a pleasant evening film for teens and adults. But because of themes like a bachelor party, jealousy and the women sneaking into a hotel dressed as belly dancers, it is not really suited to young children. Most of the humour comes from misunderstandings and chases. Fine for high schoolers and up.

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

The classic sequel problem is here too: much of the first film's cast is back, but little new has been built on top. The script leans on the best-known romcom moulds: the panic of the last single woman, jealousy, secret tailing and sneaking into a party in disguise. As Erol Özlevi's first feature it is tidy work, yet the directing choices never dare to step outside the formula. While the relationship between Sinem Kobal and Engin Altan Düzyatan tries to carry the film, the supporting characters are mostly there to deliver jokes. The Antalya hotel stretch is the liveliest part, but it offers predictable comedy rather than surprise.

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

The film's starting point is a very familiar social pressure: the panic of being the only unmarried woman in a circle of friends. Didem's schemes to talk her longtime boyfriend into marriage reflect, in comic terms, the expectation of marriage that weighs on urban women. The bachelor party plays with clichés about the worlds men and women keep hidden from each other. The film uses these moulds as material for fun rather than questioning them, yet for anyone curious about the tension between marriage, jealousy and career among the young urban middle class of the early 2010s, it is a small time capsule.

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