This is especially surprising since style and content of her story frequently require her to change focus, keeping all characters in play and going back and forth from present to past - heavy stuff for a seasoned director, but a daunting challenge for a first-feature director like her. Even the grandparents have finally made their trip to the passport-office, becoming “proper” citizens without forgetting the customs and charms of their birthplace.Ĭharm is the operative word anyway, since director Yasemin Samdrelli, who wrote the script together with her sister Nesrin, displays a wonderfully light touch even when handling contentious themes, making her film a true and rare delight. By now, the family has been completely assimilated into the culture of beer and sausage, with one son being married to a picture-perfect blonde, another one getting divorced, one being out of work and Canan suddenly pregnant by her British boyfriend. The story evenly moves in the past and the present, with the girl Canan telling her nephew how their grandfather came to Germany, just after the stubborn old man has announced his acquisition of a house in the old country.
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