LA BELLE INDIFFÉRENCE

LA BELLE INDIFFÉRENCE (KÜÇÜK ŞEYLER), 2019
Turkey | DCP, Color, 105’ | Turkish
Director: Kıvanç Sezer
Cast: Alican Yücesoy, Başak Özcan, Bülent Emrah Parlak

La Belle Indifférenceis the second film of director Kıvanç Sezer’s “housing trilogy” whose first installment My Father’s Wings was featured in a previous Count Us In! program. This time the director focuses on the customer axis of the worker-customer-contractor triangle. Onur and Bahar are a couple who have taken a loan to buy a flat in an upscale neighborhood away from the city center. When Onur is fired from his job the couple’s life turns upside down. While Bahar reacts to the situation with panic, Onur slowly creates for himself an imaginary world and finds himself in absurd situations. Focusing on modern Turkey’s white-collar middle class, the film takes a humorous look at the psychological consequences of economic change on society and the individual.