NAUSEA

NAUSEA (BULANTI), 2015

Turkey |DCP, Color, 116’| Turkey

Cast: Zeki Demirkubuz, Şebnem Hassanisoughi, Öykü Karayel, Çağlar Çorumlu, Ercan Kesal

Ahmet, a prominent intellectual, lost his wife and daughter in a traffic accident which happened while he was spending the night with his lover. As a person who cares about nothing and bows to nothing, Ahmet is not much affected by this tragic event and goes on with his life. After a while, without any apparent reason, he experiences certain changes in himself and his life. Small mishaps, strange misfortunes happen one after another. He is not on good terms with the woman he loves very much anymore. He has difficulties facing life and reveals unexpected weaknesses.

“[Nausea] tells about Ahmet, an intellectual academic who is quite well-off, an individual who acts as though he’s ‘never felt’ a personal pain and ‘prefers not to remember’ it, in a society that acts as though it has ‘never felt’ a social pain and prefers not to remember it. (...) Demonstrating excellent craftsmanship as a screenwriter, actor, and director, Demirkubuz plays the lead once again after The Waiting Room. Nausea is a finely-woven, well-structured film, from its long shots to its close-ups, and including its lighting, cinematography, dialogues, music, and directing of actors.”- Tunca Arslan