The jailed driver, his wife and the out-of-work minister
A good eye and an impish sense of irony save Turkish writer/director Nuri Bulge Ceylan's 'Three Monkeys' from epithet of 'melodrama'
By Jim Quilty
Daily Star staff
Monday, January 05, 2009
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A man stops his car in front of a bus stop and offers a woman a ride. She hesitates but, as he's unrelenting, ultimately concedes. There is a back-story. The driver, Servet (Ercan Kesal), was a Turkish government minister, one just turfed out of office by the 2003 elections that brought Recep Tayyip Erdogan's Justice and Development Party to power.
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