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The Market (2008)
Director: Ben Hopkins
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From Time Out Online
Hopkins’ extremely engaging follow-up to his prize-winning documentary ’37 Uses for a Dead Sheep’ is set in 1994 in Eastern Turkey and – perhaps a little improbably, but quite rightly – performed in Turkish throughout by local actors. A fable about the relationship between business and ethics and the difficulty of remaining independent in the globalised world of contemporary capitalism, it chronicles the increasingly risky adventures of a small-time merchant of no little cunning who is caught between conscience and ambition. Blessed with some lovely performances, it’s both entertaining and utterly relevant: somehow, it manages to be touching, funny, suspenseful and alert to moral nuance, often all at the same time.Author: Geoff Andrew
Time Out Online
Cast & crew
Director: Ben Hopkins
Cast: Tayanç Ayaydin, Genco Erkal, Senay Aydin full cast
Duration: 93 mins
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