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Getting along with Aslan is a tough proposition, but that seems appropriate enough for a boy whose name means lion. At age 11, Aslan is no longer an adorable child forgiven for every peccadillo, but neither is he a teenager able to entertain feelings of basic responsibility. Aslan feels wronged when his teacher assigns him the part of a dwarf in his school's presentation of Snow White. Fortunately, he is temporarily able to unwind at the local dog fights. There he witnesses the defeat of an old scrapper named Sivas, who is then left to die in the mud by his disappointed owner. And, of course, Aslan saves Sivas' life. Yet he doesn't consider the pooch his new best friend, more as a means of gaining respect. (Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
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Despite a certain disintegration and the fact that the film is much stronger than an authentic docudrama about various forms of violence in the traditional Turkish countryside than an intimate story, Sivas is quite an impressive promise of the young generation who no longer perceive rural tradition with the lyrical humility of older filmmakers, but they rather try to capture their partial nonsense and hard physical manifestations. In many ways, a film that is too abbreviated, but which has the gift of conveying the cruel essence of traditional culture, where each creature is born to fulfill a predetermined mission. Definitely more suggestive than the blackmailing "artistic" Mustang.
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