Directed by:
Reha ErdemComposer:
Justin LanglandsCast:
Taner Birsel, Bülent Emin Yarar, Sermet Yeşil, Ali Düşenkalkar, Ahmet Özuğurlu, Nazlı Altıntaş, Birsen Yıldız, Elif Gezen, Meral Uygur, Semih BozkurtPlots(1)
After a multi-year hiatus from the film scene, investing the money they earned from advertising, Reha Erdem and his first-time producer/business partner (now longtime producer and art director) Ömer Atay came up with a fast-paced, dynamic movie about a man unable to deal with the huge sum of money he finds in a taxi. The honest storekeeper and humble family man considers doing the right thing but he hesitates for just a moment. That instant of moral “identity quake” grows and grows in his mind until Istanbul becomes an eerie and desolate labyrinth. All the while the sea looks both very close and far away.... Run for Money is very clear and focused in its concept: money is the subject of nearly every scene. Moreover, it is the one work in the director’s filmography that comes closest to offering a narrative structure. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
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If Alfred Hitchcock had filmed A Run for Money (in the same quality, but in the American way and on the streets of San Francisco), it would have been an American classic. Had it been made by Roman Polanski (in the same quality, but in the European way and on the streets of Paris), it would have been a European classic. But it was made by “some Turkish guy” on the streets of Istanbul, and no one knows about it. Psychologically, with respect to the main character’s behavior, it’s precisely developed. The scene on the ship is unexpected and fantastically edited. As is the surprising, sudden and perfectly escalated climax. [KVIFF]
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