Mustang
School’s just out, and five orphan sisters join their male classmates for a boisterously innocent beachside frolic. The immorality of their play sets off a scandal after a neighbor passes by and reports what she considers to be illicit behavior. Now family is just like a jail...
1986
22 May 1970, Mersin, Turkey
1977, Ankara, Turkey
1994, Istanbul, Turkey
January 03, 2017
The plot pacing never falters, and at a running length of only ninety minutes, its ability to pull the audience into the world and align them with the characters with such immediacy and poignancy is impressive.February 18, 2016
The story isn't particularly original, but Mustang's achievement is to criticize a society that sexualizes everything women do while still celebrating the girls' sexuality.January 14, 2016
Part of a welcome international wave of films made by women directors that focus on girls growing up in worlds of men - and on what they look like when no one's looking.January 01, 2017
Ergüven's luckiest break was finding the five charismatic young women to portray these powerful and truly individual characters.March 14, 2017
Girls forced to marry in powerful Turkish drama; some sex.May 11, 2016
Raw, funny and incredibly moving.January 21, 2016
Ergüven isn't peddling blind optimism so much as a realism animated by the belief that freedom-far from being inevitable-must be fought for. That it will be fought for.February 18, 2017
Mustang is an utterly arresting coming-of-age story - and most importantly, one that vitally needs to be told.January 15, 2016
Ergüven's film, beautifully shot and beautifully performed, cuts its storybook tone with starker, more brutal truths.January 01, 2017
Erguven's is a limber, vigorous style of filmmaking.January 15, 2016
That there are five sisters allows Erguven to explore the scenario's several possible outcomes, be it happy ending or tragedy or the bittersweet fates in between.