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The New York Times by Ben Kenigsberg
Said to be intended as a reflection on shifts in Turkish history and identity, it is too diffuse and withholding to add up to a cogent result.
Distant Constellation
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Turkey, United States · 2017
1h 22m
Director Shevaun Mizrahi
Starring
Genre Documentary
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This haunted reverie drops us inside an Istanbul retirement home, where the battle-scarred residents revel in the camera’s attention. A creaky-voiced woman shares her personal account of the Armenian genocide, a sweetly deluded pianist performs a composition before confessing his love and a blind photographer fiddles with his flash as he points his own camera back at us. All the while, however, the ominous transformation of the land is taking place at the hands of construction machinery.
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It’s a thoughtful, dream-like film, but, in the end, I’m not sure what Distant Constellation is saying about age or memory.
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Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
The film exposes the idea of places as metaphors, mirrors, and symptoms for the people who inhabit them.
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Film Journal International by Simi Horwitz
The contrast between young and old, life ending, life continuing, is leaned on too heavily.
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