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Lucky Me (Şansımı Seveyim)

Lucky Me (Şansımı Seveyim) (translated)

Movie · 2017 · 15 people

Cem Gelinoğlu stars in Şansımı Seveyim (Lucky Me), a Turkish comedy made in 2017. Ender Mıhlar directed it from a script by Ferhat Ergün. Distributed by UIP, the film opened on August 25, 2017 after a shoot of about a month, and sold over 504,000 tickets at home for roughly 5.8 million TL. Its subject is one man's effort to change a reputation for bad luck.

Sebahattin (Cem Gelinoğlu) is known all around as an unlucky man. After a run of misfortunes he goes back to the neighborhood where he grew up, and the residents worry that he will bring trouble down on them again. Seemingly resigned to his fate, he meets Yaprak (Zeynep Tuğçe Bayat) and starts to believe his luck has turned. Things are not that simple: Yaprak is the sister of Durmuş (Mustafa Kırantepe), whom Sebahattin wronged years earlier, and her condition for accepting him is that he win Durmuş's forgiveness. Sebahattin makes a plan with his best friend İzzet (Gökhan Kıraç).

Ümit Çakmaksoy was the cinematographer, Emir Yargın and Arel Koray Nalbant wrote the music, Mark Marnikovic edited, and Serkan Özer was art director.

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

A man known for his bad luck returns to his old neighborhood and tries to change his fate: a plain, easy-to-follow comedy premise. It looks suited to family viewing, but there is no firm information about content, so if you are watching with children, glance at the first minutes anyway. It suits anyone who likes a neighborhood atmosphere. Light humor is a plus, but do not expect a deep emotional message.

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

An unlucky man returns to the neighborhood, worried neighbors, a girl and an old grievance: this material comes from the familiar world of the old neighborhood comedies. In Yeşilçam's neighborhood films, neighbourliness and mending hurt feelings were always the heart of the matter; here the fact that Sebahattin must win Durmuş over reads like a nod to that tradition. Of course modern comedy has shifted in weight; still, I always find a story that cares about making amends warmer.

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

Şansımı Seveyim leans on a ready-made template: the unlucky hero, a prejudiced neighborhood, a love interest and a plan to make amends. The template's problem is that it leaves no room for surprise; the real job is to find its own comic voice among familiar steps. A shooting schedule of about a month gives the impression of fast production, and that speed can help or hurt a comedy's rhythm. Cem Gelinoğlu's leading-man appeal will be what carries the film, but in comedy rhythm is not measured by the number of jokes alone. In comedy, confidence comes from a consistent tone and timing; the more the film manages both, the more it rises above its template.

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