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A Regular Woman(Nur eine Frau)

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Germany · 2019
1h 30m
Director Sherry Hormann
Starring Almila Bagriacik, Merve Aksoy, Aram Arami, Mehmet Ateşçi
Genre Crime, Drama

Hatun “Aynur” Sürücü, a young German woman of Turkish descent, is forced to leave school at age 16 to marry a cousin in Istanbul. When her new husband becomes abusive, Aynur, now pregnant, returns to her family in Berlin. But her family is unsympathetic and Aynur finds herself on her own.

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Slant Magazine by

Where When We Leave built to simple outage, this one concludes with a rush of complex, conflicting emotions.

70

Variety by Alissa Simon

Much more accomplished and watchable than Hormann’s previous film about a real-life crime, “3096 Days,” “A Regular Woman” owes much to its fine cast and impeccable technical package.

40

The Hollywood Reporter by Keith Uhlich

There's a shakiness in how Hormann utilizes the fact that Aynur's murder is a foregone conclusion. It's as if the director is delaying gut-wrenching emotion as opposed to letting it emerge organically from the stylistic severity.

75

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

German director Sherry Hormann, working from a script based on an infamous 2005 case, summons up outrage, heartache, worry and judgement in 90 tight and damning minutes.

70

Screen Daily by Wendy Ide

There’s a fine line between giving a voice to the victims of honour killings and putting words into the mouths of people who are no longer able to speak for themselves. The slightly contentious issue with A Regular Woman is how closely allied it is with the real case of Hatun Aynur Sürücü. There is no distance afforded by a layer of fictionalisation and, ultimately, it’s impossible to know how closely the voice of the character in the film matches that of the young woman who lost her life.

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