Karisik Pizza

One day when the young man Murat-
a daydreaming pizza delivery-boy- is delivering pizza, the door is opened by an unusually beautiful woman, Emel.
Her beauty lures him into the apartment. Soon he has a gun pointed to his head and is situated in a chair, with hands and feet bound. Murat spends most of the film seated like this. It turns out that Emel is trying to blame a murder on him. Through flash-backs we get to follow Emel, Kenan (the handsome) and Celal (the tractor), three small time gangsters whose foremost goal is money and power. It turns out Murat has stumbled into the middle of a show-down.
Already during the opening titles the tone is set in this different and smart action movie. Ayoung man looks into the mirror, he talkes to it with conviction and aggressiveness-one thinks Taxi Driver. The opening titles start to roll- one thinks Homicide. That way it all continues through out the film.
And it is quite a funny idea - the pizza boy as an action hero. The monologue in the opening sequence shows what Umur Turagay wants to make. An action film
in Turkish clothing, where ironic winks and meta-filmic segments are the rule.
The references to Hollywood films are many and apparent.
But a cultural context is, of course, impossible to elude, but has on the opposite come to transcribe a Hollywood-like character gallery. And this is where we find the dynamic of Karisik Pizza, the fact that two worlds are allowed to collide. Turagay tries to make something more, this even though the techniques are reminiscent to those of a Rodriguez or a Tarantino. That the film is produced in
a country that culturally, traditionally and historically is very different from ours goes along way.
Low-budget, but very exciting.
ROBERT LÖFGREN

Premiärstatus
Skandinavisk premiär: Medverkande
Melton Cumbul,Gem Özer,Olgun Simsek: Producent
Farok Aksoy: Manus
Tamer Baran: Foto
Patrice Marchetti: Musik
Ömer Ahunbay: Talat språk
Turkish