Directed by Emin Alper | 131 mins | 2022
The long shadow of Polanski’s "Chinatown" (1974) looms over this stylish, sun-bleached noir about corruption in a backwoods Turkish province, hailed as a standout of the Un Certain Regard program at Cannes in 2022. Newly posted to this far-flung community, state prosecutor Emre is naturally concerned by the appearance of giant sinkholes on its outskirts: his investigation will see him embroiled in raki-doused Machiavellian schemes, shot through with machismo and repressed homosexual desire.