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Bookmark this pageHarem Suare (1999)
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Ozpetek's follow-up to The Turkish Bath is a murky historical drama slithering about the political and emotional convolutions of life in the Sultan's harem during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire, as recounted (get this) to Valeria Golino at a train station by an old woman who was there. It looks a million (at least, the costume budget does), but the human relations are too vague and diffused to hold the centre, and the sense of bygone traditions and practices is shallow, certainly compared to similar treatments in The Silences of the Palace and Raise the Red Lantern.Author: NB
Cast & crew
Director: Ferzan Ozpetek
Producer: Tilde Corsi, Régine Konckier, Jean-Luc Ormières, Gianni Romoli
Cast: Marie Gillain, Alex Descas, Lucia Bosé, Valeria Golino, Malick Bowens, Christophe Aquillon, Serra Yilmaz, Haluk Bilginer full cast
Duration: 106 mins
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