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The Cut
Mardin, 1915: a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and becomes fixated on the idea of finding them and sets off to track them down.
6 September 1958, Beirut, Lebanon
2 June 1943, Turkey
7 October 1974, Kozoglu, Kelkit District, Turkey
25 January 1974, Hamburg, West Germany
2 December 1979, Madrid, Spain
1962, Mannheim, Germany
15 October 1981, London, England, UK
February 12, 2016
He's a man traversing the frontier and isolated pockets of humanity (not always welcoming) to find the promised land of family, and Akin and cinematographer Rainer Klausmann find astounding backdrops for his odyssey...September 30, 2015
[Akin] is s a resourceful collector of the sounds and sensations of the contemporary world... but there are only a few vividly imagined moments in [this] muted, somber passage...September 18, 2015
"The Cut" is not an optimistic film, but it presents a scenario rich enough to make you want to be optimistic.March 20, 2016
Its historical devils are never really front and center, and The Cut could, in fact, be described as the most hopeful genocide drama ever.September 24, 2015
Those with a greater patience for streamlined, propulsive storytelling will be rewarded with a riveting saga of parental determination and historical horror.October 15, 2015
Despite its visual beauty and Rahim's extraordinary, and silent, performance, the film never quite manages to connect on an emotional level.October 09, 2015
Bombardment of images resonates from Holocaust films. . .Powerful travelogue visuals almost overwhelm the enormity of Armenian genocide and the cross-continental diaspora.September 17, 2015
This depiction could be seen as an allegory of the millions who have been displaced by the Syrian war and continue to fight for their survival as refugees.October 01, 2015
Akin has mischievously called the movie a western, and his wide-screen photography gives a sweeping sense of the vast distances separating the hero from his girls.October 29, 2015
Akin uses a visually compelling yet sober, almost restrained, aesthetic that differs from the more full-throttle approach of some of his previous work.September 20, 2015
The Cut is a haunting movie, but there are times when one wonders whether Akin should go more for the emotional jugular, rub our faces in the monstrosity he's depicting.