Mustang

The script is well-written, the director's eye is incredibly sharp, and the film's visuals are aesthetically moving.

Employing a palette of simple yet elegant binary motifs - day/night, light/dark - Ergüven constructs her own powerful and distinct emotional language through a confident and captivating formal style.

I won't tell you how it ends. I will say you should see for yourself.

Ergven has delivered a debut for the ages, her film a chilling, emotionally shattering marvel I'm unlikely to forget anytime soon.

There are so many remarkable things about this wonderful movie.

Erguven has said the film was inspired from memories of her own childhood, and much of it certainly presents a seemingly authentic reality.

By casting a critical eye on her birthplace and depicting the inherent misogyny of a sexually repressed patriarchy, Ergüven has created a powerful piece of protest art.

Few movies have held my heart in its hands like “Mustang”.

It was a savvy move for Erguven to set her debut feature in Turkey, a country that straddles Europe and Asia, idealistically and spiritually torn between the East and West, the old world and the new, 21st-century free will and millenniums of tradition.

Though somewhat didactic in its attempt to highlight the malignancy of a certain type of Turkish patriarchy, Mustang's sheer gusto carries its message with unmistakable force.