Rijndri Load of rubbish!!

Inmechon The movie's only flaw is also a virtue: It's jammed with characters, stories, warmth and laughs.

Bea Swanson This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

Married Baby Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Aristides-2 I suppose I shouldn't vote on this movie because I didn't get to see much of it because of two major problems which impeded access:: 1. The film-to-DVD transfer was third rate. The transfer 'muddied' the images shown making this viewer think he was walking into quicksand. 2. The subtitles were the worst transcriptions I've ever seen. As some of you know there are websites, foreign to the West, that are trying to enter a broader market and what they do is "translate" their comments into English, using some primitive app that must appear to them idiomatic......Wrong!; the results are laughable. 2a. Spellcheck anyone? The people who did the subtitles for this movie, as wretched as the the titles were, failed to use Spellcheck to edit their copy. So in addition to baffling, ridiculous translations, also incorrectly spell quite a few words. These two and half negatives allow me to believe that the producers, with something of interest to sell, had zero control of post-production DVD copying. Thumbs down, major league level.

Juha Varto Francesco and Marta are an Italian pair. They fight constantly, are unfaithful to each other, and take the other as a rival. But they are a married couple like Pope wants it. Both yearn for a change. An aunt dies and leaves a fortune but it is in Turkey. Francesco leaves for Istanbul. He finds a different kind of life, men who are more sensitive and able to listen each other, to share experiences, and eager to listen. He finds Mehmet, in years younger but humanly more mature. Mehmet's family and friends open Francesco's eyes to a world more friendly, more meaningful and full of tasks better scaled for a man. He also finds out that man and woman may live together but without family are doomed to be unhappy: they eat each other out. He falls in love with Mehmet. Marta follows to Istanbul and finds out the change. Her pride and her title to marriage are hurt but she also feels certain freedom. Francesco dies later and Marta understands her aunt's letters: as a free woman in Turkey she needs no men to be paired with. Men and women are citizens of same planet but their life are only parallel to each other, not together.

richard-276 I like a movie that has a distinct climax, yet is easy to overlook or perhaps miss altogether. The climax of Hamam is when Francesco hands his wife the letters from his aunt and asks that she send them back when she's finished reading them. It is a seemingly small, inconsequential gesture -- but an act of conviction that describes a person's inner workings far more than could ever be achieved with an abundance of words. It is truly a beautiful moment -- one of many -- and a reason this is a film worth viewing.

Hunky Stud I found this videotape at a local library's gay and lesbian section. However, there was only one scene that is related to homosexuality. The main character's partner can also be another female.It is really a nice movie about a person's simple life pursuing happiness. In this material world, sometimes people forget what the ultimate happiness is all about. It really does not matter how much one can make, this film showed that happiness is when you found something that you like to do.A good movie.