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Subject: Turkish film at New Orleans Film Festival
Date: 3 Oct 1992 22:35:33 -0500
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 The Secret Face at New Orleans Film Festival

 INTERNATIONAL TURKISH VIDEO & FILM CENTER
P.O. Box 5072, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118
      Phone: (504) 523-2666, Fax: (504) 455-1799


        AWARD-WINNING TURKISH FILM THE SECRET FACE  AT
              NEW ORLEANS FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL

International Turkish Video and Film Center (ITVFC), a non-profit
organization based in New Orleans, is proud to present an award
winning Turkish film, The Secret Face (Gizli Yuz), at the 4th New
Orleans Film and Video Festival organized by the New Orleans Film
and Video Society. The Secret Face  (Gizli Yuz) tells the story
of a young man hired  to photograph the face  of strangers by a
beautiful and  seductively enigmatic  woman.  She claims  to be
searching for some one  with an intriguing  face and eventually
finds one in the photo of a  watchmaker - who she secretly runs
away with. But the young photographer has become infatuated with
his client and  begins searching  for her.  His unrequited love
leads him on an odysey that will take him to the mysteriousland
of the subconscious where the inner folds of his tormented psyche
are uncovered. Finding himself in a secret, private place where
fantasy mixes with reality, where  paradox and legend meet, the
photographer must overrule his instincts to fit into a world of
symbols. Director  Kavur's  sensous, poetic  treatment  of this
unusual  story  of  obsessive  love   parallels  in  charm  and
sophistication, the  ageless  splendour  of  classical oriental
storytelling. He has structured the film using a circular style
of interconnected dramatic elements, and the resulting build-up
of tension culminates in the unleashing of stunning visual poetry
of a timeless and universal appeal.

Samantha Stenzel of Variety described The Secret Face as " ... a
fanciful tale in the Oriental tradition of " The Thousand and One
Nights," is  laden  with  atmosphere  and  hauntingly memorable
images...breathtaking lensing of picturesque Black Sea villages
perfectly captures the mystical atmosphere...outstanding..."

Based on an idea from a best selling novel called Kara Kitap (The
Black Book) by well known Turkish  writer Orhan Pamuk, (who was
called as "the rising star of the Orient" by The New York Times),
who also wrote the script, The Secret Face has won the following
awards:

Best Picture - 20th International Festival of New Cinema in
Montreal, 1991
Critics Award, The International Confederation of Art and Essai
Cinema Award - The Mediterrenean Film Festival of Bastia
Grand Public Prize, Special Jury Mention - International Film
Festival of Freiburg, 1992
Best Picture, Best Original Script, Best Actor, Best Original
Music, Best Editing - 28th National Antalya Film Festival, 1991
Best Picture, Best Director, Fipresci Special Mention - 11th
International Istanbul Film Festival, 1992
Best Picture, Best Director - Ankara National Film Festival, 1992



The film's director, Omer  Kavur was born  in Ankara, Turkey in
1944 and studied  sociology, journalism,  and Cinema  in Paris.
After returning to Turkey in 1971, he made documentary films and
over 200 commercials. He has  directed feature films since 1974
several of which have  been awarded prizes  at home and abroad.
Films include Emine  (74), Yusuf  and Kenan  (79), Oh Beautiful
Istanbul (81),  A  Broken  Love  Story  (82),  The  Lake  (82),
Blindfold( 84), A  Desperate Road (85),  Motherland Hotel (87),
Night Journey (87), The Secret face (90).

The Secret Face  will be shown  on Sunday, October  18, 1992 at
Canal Place Theaters at 9:00 PM. ITVFC will give a reception at
the hospitality suite of the festival at Canal Place beginning at
8:00 PM  before  the  screening. Everybody  is  welcome  to the
reception.

The Secret Face (Gizli Yuz), 1990
115 min., Turkish with English Subtitles, Producer: Sadik Deveci,

Director: Omer  Kavur, Screenplay:  Orhan Pamuk,  Camera: Erdal
Kahraman, Music: Cahit Berkay, Cast: Zuhal Olcay, Fikret Kuskan,
Rutkay Aziz, Sevda Ferdag
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