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Movie · 2010 · 4 people

Hair, a 2010 drama film, was written and directed by Tayfun Pirselimoğlu as a Turkish-Greek co-production. The story unfolds in Istanbul's Tarlabaşı district, where Hamdi runs a small wig shop that doubles as his home. A solitary man who owns nothing but an old car, he spends his days and nights behind the shop window, watching the street, the passing cars, and the women waiting on the opposite sidewalk.

Hamdi knows that cancer will soon end his life, and his one wish is to travel somewhere far away before he dies; he settles on Brazil, though his dream never goes further than listening to Brazilian music. Everything changes the day a woman named Meryem comes to the shop to sell her hair. Driven by an urge he cannot suppress, Hamdi begins to follow her, and when Meryem eventually realizes she is being watched, events take a complicated turn.

Starring Ayberk Pekcan, Nazan Kesal, Rıza Akın and Asiye Dinçsoy, the film won Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress at the 30th Istanbul International Film Festival, as well as Best Supporting Actor and Best Cinematography at the 47th Antalya Golden Orange Film Festival.

DirectorTayfun Pirselimoğlu

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Asiye Dinçsoy Asiye Dinçsoy Actor · 47 years old Ayberk Pekcan Ayberk Pekcan Actor · died at 51 Nazan Kesal Nazan Kesal Actor · 57 years old Rıza Akın Actor · 1955 – 2022

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

In Hair, Tayfun Pirselimoğlu squeezes almost an entire world into the window of a wig shop and turns that narrow space into a disciplined exercise in framing. Hamdi watching the street from behind the glass makes our gaze and his overlap in an uncomfortable way. The cinematography award at Antalya was well earned: light and framing turn Tarlabaşı into a stifling inner world rather than a postcard. The acting rests largely on looks and silence, and the Best Actress prize in Istanbul feels like a reward for that restraint. As the stalking story develops, though, it settles into a repetitive rhythm instead of building tension, and at times the viewer's patience pays the price for the minimalism. Even so, with three major awards in Istanbul, it is a consistent piece of auteur cinema.

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

For an eye raised on Yeşilçam's warm, hopeful stories, Hair is not an easy film. The story of a sick, lonely man whose whole world has shrunk to a single shop is heartbreaking, and there is a delicate poetry in the way he consoles himself with Brazilian music. Yet Hamdi secretly following a woman lands somewhere unsettling, far from the innocent loves of our old films. The craft behind its awards is plain to see, but I like to leave a film with a little light, and here that light is turned very low.

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

Hair uses Tarlabaşı not as a backdrop but as a place that shapes its character's fate. The women waiting on the sidewalk, the passing cars and the lonely man behind the shop window add up to a quiet portrait of lives on the margins of a big city. A woman who comes in to sell her hair captures, in a single gesture, how poverty's bargaining reaches all the way to the body. Hamdi's Brazil, a dream that never goes beyond listening to Brazilian music, reads like the escape fantasy of people who cannot go anywhere. The stalking feels less like a love story than a dark product of loneliness, and the film leaves the viewer alone with the discomfort of that gaze.

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