Yol 1982

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: Guney is a firebrand of his country's intellectual left. His films -- slow, ruminative, defiantly indigenous -- smolder with an ideologue's indignation and a poet's ironic compassion. Read more

Vincent Canby, New York Times: A film whose political and ethnic concerns are likely to be equated -- wrongly -- with cinematic achievement. Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: Each time a sequence approaches cinematic life, it's flattened by the appearance of a thesis. Read more

Chris Petit, Time Out: The film's poetry, its combination of sound and image especially, has an unconscious innocence no longer available to most European and American narratives. Read more