On the one hand, Emin Alper’s Burning Days is a discreet but telling account of the resurgence of homophobia — a key plank of right-wing populism — in Turkey.
On the other hand, it’s a half-and-half genre film: half crime thriller and half western. In the Cannes Un Certain Regard entry, a conscientious public prosecutor comes from the city to a small town, where he soon finds himself at the wrong end of the townsfolk’s pitchforks.
It’s Wyatt Earp, basically, except that city boy Emre (Selahbattin Pasali) is the kind of public official whose integrity is expressed by doing everything by the book.
He is also very neatly turned out, even when his water isn’t working. As it often isn’t: more on this in a minute.Emre is also awkward, unable to find conversational common ground with the local big-wigs.
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