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Bookmark this pageEn Garde (2004)
Director: Ayse Polat
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From Time Out London
Modest but intelligent and affecting portrait of Alice, an introverted 16-year-old dumped into a home by her self-centred mother, who is befriended – somewhat against the odds – by a chatty Kurdish asylum-seeker living in the same institution. Their fragile relationship is threatened not only by the disruptive influence of an interested boy, but by Alice’s hearing disorder, conveyed by Polat with an expressive expressionist soundtrack. With decent performances, it’s sweet but never overly sentimental, but it never quite takes off properly.Author: GA
Time Out London Issue 1788: November 24-December 01, 2004
Cast & crew
Director: Ayse Polat
Cast: Maria Kwiatkowsky, Pinar Erincin, Luk Piyes, Geno Lechner
Rated: 15
Duration: 94 mins
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