"Nur Eine Frau" (2019 release from Germany; 105 min.) brings the real-life story of Aynur, a German woman of Kurdish-Muslim descent. As the movie opens, it is "2005" and we see footage of a slain body on the street as the voice-over starts her story: "That is me, killed by my brother". We then go to "May, 1998", when then-16 yr. old Aynur is sent to Turkey where she is married off to her cousin (not her choice obviously). The marriage is a disaster and we then go to "April, 1999" as Aynur, highly pregnant at this point, flees Turkey and arrives back in Berlin to live with her family (parents, 4 brothers, 4 sisters). At this point we are 10 min. into the movie.
Couple of comments: this is the latest film from American-German writer-director Sherry Hormann. Here she brings us the gut-wrenching account of an honor killing that will make your head shake in disgust and your blood boil. The hate that simmers in Aynur's family is simply incomprehensible to us Westerns. Even though Aynur's parents moved to Germany decades ago, there isn't the slightest integration into German society after all this time. Hisses one of the brothers at one point: "Aynur's become German", with a level of disdain that is all too clear. PLEASE NOTE: The movie's original German title "Nur Eine Frau" has been inexplicably mistranslated into "A Regular Woman", which completely misses the point. At one point, the movie's voice-over (the Aynur character) comments that "I deserved to die, because I'm merely a woman" ("Ich habe es verdient zu sterben, weil ich nur eine Frau bin"). In other words: the correct movie title in English is the dismissive "Merely a Woman" or "Just a Woman", not "A Regular Woman"!! Also please note that the movie's running time is listed incorrectly at 90 min. It is actually about 105 min. (give or take a few). The movie's no-star cast is outstanding, from the Anyur character (played by Almila Bagriacik) on down.
I'm not sure when or where "Nur Eine Frau" premiered. But I can tell you that it opened this weekend at my local art-house theater here in Cincinnati, and this marked the first time that I saw a movie in the theater since the COVID-19 outbreak in mid-March, 3 1/2 months ago. The theater imposed strict limits on where to sit, respecting social distancing. Not that it mattered, as the Friday early evening screening where I saw this at turned out to be a private screening (I was literally the only person in the theater). If you are in the mood for a tough movie exposing the horrible realities of so-called honor killings, I'd recommend you check this out, be it in the theater (if you can), on Amazon Instant Video, or eventually on DVD/Blu-ray.
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