Belonging

A murder investigation is flipped inside out in Burak Çeviks second feature a spellbinding and surprising work that questions whether we can ever truly understand criminal motives We begin in the present as an unseen narrator recounts the assassination of his lovers disapproving mother accompanied by hauntingly vacant images of urban alienation and garish city lights we then flash back to witness the first encounter between the loversturnedaccomplices their mutual attraction and worldweariness emerging across a sleepless night and morning after Çevik imbues the proceedings with a stylistic confidence and willingness to bend the conventions of cinematic form to arrive at a complex gripping double meditation on love and death