Through a Glass Darkly: Keltek Finds Divinity Through Insanity
Sanism might be the term best used to define the trials and travails faced by the protagonist of Turkish director Gürcan Keltek‘s sophomore film New Dawn Fades (Yeni șafak solarken). Like the Joy Division song it shares a title with, a mentally unstable young man drifts in and out of hallucination in a film which also feels “Directionless, so plain to see.” Since the narrative is from the perspective of its spiraling principal, it takes a while to mull over Keltek’s languorous pacing to decipher if it’s merely an affliction or if something more sinister and supernatural is indeed afoot.… Read the rest
