THOU GILD'ST THE EVEN Premieres Tonight!

Onur Ünlü's Thou Gild'st The Even premieres tonight. A tale of magical realism, shot in gorgeous black and white, Thou Gild'st The Even alternates between romance and jealousy, the fantastic and the absurd, the beautiful and the scatalogical.

Programmer Dmitri Eipides describes the film in his notes:

Cemal takes an interest in the gloomily pretty farm girl Yasemin (Demet Evgar). He spies on her while she wipes her ailing uncle's behind, then promptly asks her to lunch, where the two of them indiscriminately gobble up Cemal's meds; suddenly, they're flying high over the local landscape — before falling back to Earth and vomiting. It's during their vomit session that Cemal asks Yasemin to marry him. She accepts. But soon after the wedding Cemal becomes paranoid and fiendishly jealous, a soft-spoken Woyzeck who beats his woman one minute and reads her poetry the next. (The film's title comes from Shakespeare's twenty-eighth sonnet.)

 

THOU GILD’ST THE EVEN Screening Times:

Sunday, Sept 8th, 10:00 PM SCOTIABANK 14

Tuesday, Sept 10th, 1:15 PM SCOTIABANK 8

Friday, Sept 13th, 7:00 PM SCOTIABANK 11

THOU GILD'ST THE EVEN Trailer and Posters

Turkish writer-director Onur Ünlü’s mysterious, fantastical-scatological fable follows a barber who survives a suicide attempt and finds himself falling in love, succumbing to murderous jealousy, and trying to make sense of life in a village where his neighbours are invisible, immortal or possess the ability to stop time.
Described as a kind of Turkish superhero movie, THOU GILD'ST THE EVEN has a fascinating premise and gorgeous black-and-white cinematography. Behold the trailer:

I found two poster designs for the film, both using the Turkish title. I expect that one of these will be used with the English title at the festival.

This film about the ordinary sorrows, worries and troubles of townspeople with extraordinary abilities plays TIFF as part of the Vanguard lineup.
THOU GILD'ST THE EVEN screening times:

• Sunday September 8, Scotiabank 14, 10pm
• Tuesday September 10, Scotiabank 8, 1:15pm
• Friday September 13, Scotiabank 11, 7pm