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Zephyr -- Film Review

3:44 PM PDT 10/23/2010 by Kirk Honeycutt

For her feature debut, Turkish writer-director Belma Bas situates a slip of a story in the foothills of the Eastern Black Sea Mountains.

She builds her story in the small details of a young girl's summer spent with grandparents as she watches crawling insects and butterflies, buries dead creatures, plays with a neighbor's boy and searches for a missing cow. On whatever aesthetic grounds a filmmaker can justify unfolding a drama through such trifling activity, it does make for a fairly mind-numbing sit until the story finally works up a strong conflict between a mother and daughter.

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