EssenceStory Well Deserved Praise

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Jenna Walter The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

l_rawjalaurence This melodrama has it all - Gul (Hulya Kocyigit) is a blind girl whose sight miraculously returns, and resumes her career as a singer in a Gazino. She falls in love with fortuneteller Murat (Kadir Inanir), but their love-affair cools and Murat ends up falling on hard times. Gul ends up pursuing her career, while Murat has to rely on the consolation of his two friends - making the three friends of the title - Mustik (Halit Akcatepe) and Artin (Musfik Kenter). Memduh Un's film is a prime example of Yesilcam melodrama, full of abrupt cuts, zooms into the protagonists, musical interluded, intercuts between the protagonists, and dramatic music. It's a fascinating record of a long-defunct genre, whose techniques have been appropriated by the contemporary Turkish diziler (or series). The film offers interesting perspective of Istanbul in the early Seventies, as well as recording full-blooded performances by the costars Inanir and Kocyigit. Definitely worth a watch on a tedious afternoon.