The Cut (2014)
Directed by Fatih Akin
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
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That theme gets lost in the beautiful imagery, inspired by the look of Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978) and shot by Akin’s frequent cinematographer Rainer Klausmann on 35mm film with wide-angle lenses.
The Cut is in the cinematic tradition of sweeping epics centering on stoic immigrants to the New World who stayed silent about what pushed them out of the old country: the Swedes in Jan Troell’s The Emigrants (1971), the Italians in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather Part II (1974), and the Irish in Ron Howard’s Far and Away (1992).