Director: Metin Erksan; Writer: Metin Erksan; Producer: Metin Erksan; Cinematographer: Mengü Yegin; Cast: Müsfik Kenter, Sema Özcan, Süleyman Pekcan, Fadil Garan, Adnan Uygun
Duration: 01:25:36; Aspect Ratio: 1.323:1; Hue: 113.314; Saturation: 0.014; Lightness: 0.336; Volume: 0.150; Cuts per Minute: 4.906; Words per Minute: 20.630
Summary: A house painter falls in love with the enlarged photograph of a girl, but refuses to love the girl herself. The film is
considered to be an allegorical study of the image / referent distinction, a very
commonly used concept in the esoteric teaching of Sufism. The hero cannot transcend
the illusion that the photograph offers and acquire the truth to which it refers.
However, the film is open to alternative readings, one of which could be psychoana
lytic. What is common to almost all of Erksan's films are fetish objects and men
obsessively enjoying these objects. Sevmek Zamanı runs along the same lines, and calls
for an examination of the psychological structuration of Erksan's filmic discourse. (Nezih Erdogan)
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