Pandora’nın Kutusu

Pandora’s box ist der vierte Spielfilm der Türkin Yeşim Ustaoğlu. Die Filmemacherin erzählt von drei Geschwistern, die ihre an Alzheimer erkrankte Mutter vom Dorf an der Schwarzmeerküste nach Istanbul bringen und betreuen müssen. Dabei stellt sich nicht nur das Leben mit der kranken Mutter als Herausforderung heraus, auch die Beziehung der Geschwister untereinander zeigt ihre offenen Wunden. Die Umstände zwingen sie, miteinander ins Reine zu kommen.

Pandora‘s Box is a story of alienation and isolation, a story of individuals whose lives have been shaped by a sterile, middle-class morality. A story that many people touched by the inevitable combination of capitalism and modernity can identify with. It is a kind of human landscape, both universal and singular at the same time… Two sisters and a brother live in the center of today‘s Istanbul. They are in their thirties and forties, and lead very different lives, self-centered in their upper middle class preoccupations. One day, a phone call brings them together on a voyage through Turkey’s suburbs and villages to the small town in the Black Sea mountains where they were born. Their aged mother, Nusret, has disappeared. As the siblings start reminiscing about her, the tensions among them quickly become apparent.