Distant Constellation (2017) - full transcript

You're late. The Boss is here.

Get up!

Halva, Halva.

I brought Halva dessert.

Halva, Halva, Halva.

Bravo, bravo!

Halva, Halva.

Here's some Halva --

Lime doesn't stick to my walls.

My face is cheerful.

I loved her but she
went to strangers.



How about the Song of
Marseille?

Sing it, sing it!

Arise, children of the
Fatherland!

Come on.

Sing it! Sing it!

Arise, children of the
Fatherland!

Come on.

Arise, children of the
Fatherland!

Arise, children of the
Fatherland!

Come on.

Arise, children of the
Fatherland!

You sing beautifully.

Come on.

Hello? Veronique? Where are
you?



You're sick? Me too.

I've had bronchitis
for 15 days.

They don't know
how to fix this.

I don't want to stay
on here, you know?

Because they give me these
useless medications.

Drugs in the morning. Drugs
in the night!

I've had enough of this.

They have no clue.

They don't know
what they're doing.

Okay. Bye.

I think I have a

sometimes bad character.

I want what I want--
immediately.

It's not good, no?

I don't have patience
sometimes.

Slowly, slowly.

I want to know --to have my
money, tickets and so...

I'm a little...

anxious.

I was worse when
I was young.

And I did a lot of things
that I will not repeat now.

So is life.

Tomorrow is Thursday.

I have the famous doctor,
Mr. Mario.

He's not a specialist of

this kind of sickness.

My younger brother was born
in 1915

a disastrous year for the
Armenians in Turkey.

Our family tried to survive.

We were a very
well-to-do family.

We had a cow and a donkey.

My grandfather had a mill

where he prepared the best
flour in our home town.

But they burnt his mill.

They would come into a house
and knock it.

If it's not open, they break
the door.

They were very bad bandits.

They gathered
all the Armenians.

And they separated
all the men.

They killed them with knives.

Strangled them with rope.

They fired the gun at them.

They burned the villages.

Without letting out anybody.

Even the animals
were burned.

In order not to be deported,
we had to become Islam.

My mother and grandmother
went to the government,

and wanted to accept Islam.

So for a few years we had
Turkish names.

My name was Hasibe.

My mother's name, Huriye.

She was Mayrim.

My younger brother, Kamil.

My sister, Kadriye.

Because she was Catherine.

And my older brother, Mahir.

My grandmother, Dilber.

I can't remember the others,

my father's mother's name.

Just give me a minute.

February, the 26th
of February.

That's the day of my birth.

That's the day of my birth.
That's the day of my birth.

We'll have many things.

We'll have a cake.

We'll have a cake. On the
26th of February.

In ten days. Ten days.
Ten days.

What is today?

It's the 17th.
It's the 17th.

In 9 days we'll have it.
We'll have it. We'll have it.

You will be here. You
will be here. Right?

I'll take a lot of good
photographs.

I'll take a lot of good
photographs.

Very good. Very good.

All of this is working.

I'm not diabetic or
anything.

I'm in good shape.

Everything is working.

My head.

Everything is very good.

Even my eyes are good.

I have a big camera.
A big camera.

I read the famous
masterpiece of Nabokov --

Lolita.

and he's

writing his experience

when he came to America with
a young, young girl.

Very young.

He loves her like a father.

And also she loves
him like a father.

But she has a
sexual relation after.

And so and so and so and

I don't remember exactly the
book but --

He writes that she
led me to do this

business. Fucking
her with everybody.

Lolita.

Who said to me, a woman said
to me --

You know she said to me, the
first experience is difficult.

The second difficult. The
third, the fifth, the sixth.

After, you get used to it.

Yeah?

You know in Paris,
when I was in 1958,

there were 500,000 call
girls. In the streets.

500,000.

Girls making love for money.

If you are nice with her,
they can help you,

they can say, "Go there.
They have this and
that you can find..."

"If you want," she said,

"I can give you an address.

You go there and there's a
big party, sex party."

I said, "I don't like this,"
I don't know.

I don't like,
the sex parties.

I want, when I
make sex, private.

You and me.

You and me.

Maximum, two girls and me.

But when we did the small
sex parties in Izmir,

I said goddamnit...

I don't like.
I don't like --

The best for me
is you and me.

The best. Private.

In a room. Sex.
And it's finished after.

You forgot.

They called the daughter of
the dying man.

She said she was busy and
couldn't come.

Is this acceptable?

Yea...

- Well, so is life.
- True.

What can we do brother.

I am sick of your breath.
You blow it in my face.

Carry eucalyptus
in your pocket.

I left it in the room.

I tell you to carry it in
your pocket, take two even!

Yes.

It's a nasty smell for a
person like me,
who doesn't smoke.

But the doctor gave me
permission to smoke.

Of course.

This doctor...

Just not too much...

What a fine doctor!

- I would kill him,
give me his address.
- Alright.

So?

- Someone is coming.
- Just press minus 1.

So your sister-in-law called?
Your older daughter called?

No.

Your younger
daughter called?

- She didn't either.
- But she called
you recently?

Recently?! Recently my
mom was a young woman!

My daughter called me,
but the son didn't.

So is life.

Another round? We can go
down, then up again.

Excellent.

Let's do it like that.

They pressed at 2.

It's ok, leave it alone.

Let it go up to 2.

It's going up.

Don't tell them anything.

Let them open the door.

We keep enjoying
ourselves.

Come on.

Come on, move it.

Let's go, Izo.

Can you move
a bit forward?

The cart won't fit in.
The cart won't fit in.

Ok - only for people then.

It's ok for people,
but the cart won't fit!

Aren't you a person yourself?
You are a person.

So is life.

Here we go.

I'll take a photo,
I'll take a photo.

Let me see, let me see.

I can't see it.
I can't see it.

I'll take a photo,
I'll take a photo.

I can't see it.
I can't see it.

My eyes...

I can't see. I can't see.

I can't see it.

I can't see it.

I can't see it.
I can't see it.

My eyes are bad.

My eyes are bad.

I keep it here.
I keep it here.

I have three cameras.

Three studio cameras.
Three cameras. Three...

They have big lenses.
Big lenses.

I need to see the doctor.

I don't know why.
I don't know why.
I don't know why.

I don't know why.
I don't know why.

It goes here. It goes here.
It goes here. It goes here.

My eyes, I can't see.

My eyes, I can't see.

This is very bad.
This is very bad.

I need to see the doctor.

There's nothing they can do
to fix it. There's nothing.
There's nothing.

There's nothing.
There's nothing.

Because it's cancer.

But I'm a photographer...

Yes, indeed.

They are out there.
They are.

I know this very well.

But who are they? How do they
look? That I don't know.

- But why don't they make
contact with us?
- That's a good point.

Maybe they're afraid we'll
seize their lands,
that's why.

I see what you mean.

What can we do brother, life
is like that.

You pressed zero.

- You're really sure there
are aliens out there?
- Yes.

But I can't say if they have
hair or a beard.

They don't admit it because
they don't want us to panic.

They hide it.

We'll never know. Do
vegetables grow there?

What do they eat?

Is there water or not?

Is there water?
Is there sea?

- This all needs
to get calculated.
- True, true.

- Maybe one day they will
come land in this world.
- Yes.

One day.

Now,

in a short while,

Slowly, slowly--

Your eyes will gently close.

Don't resist.

Receive nothing
from the world.

No pain.

No weight.

All questions
will be answered.

Sleep.

Let go.

Let go.

Wait a second,
wait a second.

This goes there.
This goes there.

I think I've fixed it.
I think I've fixed it.

See if you can make it work.
See if you can make it work.

Take a look, take a look.

Put it on there.

Try.

Yes, yes, yes, very good!

Eyes in the eyes.

Eyes in the eyes
- with a complicit look!

The streets in 1954
in Turkey was a disaster.

We have to drive very slowly.
Much better for me!

Finally, I took the
hand of Mimi.

And she took mine.

She raised her dress

and I put my hand on her
beautiful thighs.

I started
caressing it quietly.

My touch gave
her pleasure.

Taking pleasure

from my...

She lowered...

She was 31 years old...

She lowered her eyes

and I took that
as a sign to continue.

At times I stopped listening
to Miss Mayer's voice,

talking about the ruins of
Ephesus.

Miss Mayer had a big culture
about archeology.

The shock absorbers of the
car were old,

suddenly we were shaking up
and down.

The motor of the car was very
old.

All at once, like this, my
hand...

fell from Mimi's hand.

You understand? From this
my hand went like this.

I caressed her thighs all the
way up. She was very aroused.

My caresses made her happy.

I kept my hand
inside her thighs.

And I don't know how but she
lowered her panties.

She gave me another
nod with her head

and I started to
caress her clitoris.

My God!

Then she had an orgasm.

I was in pieces!

She told me to finish.

The heat was
making her sweat

and her smell was so strong.

I opened a window

and finally was able
to catch my breath.

I had a small jar of jam.

It spilled over.
It turned over.

Everything became sweet.

I had to wash it.

All the people in our home
town got poor.

They lost everything--

money, property, houses.

And their works.

When you got married they
would ask for money.

We didn't have
money for that.

We were hardly pulling life
together to live together.

So... we never
thought about marriage.

So now I tell you
if you have the time,

and...

chance to marry

you should marry,
get married --

and have a family.

It would be nice
to have children.

I love children.

And later in Istanbul,

1940 to 1942, I
took care of a baby girl.

An Armenian girl.
Her name was Dianna.

And I loved her so much that

when I left to go to
another job, I cried.

When the time for her dinner
and supper came,

- she had a mother, a mother
and a father - but
they hired somebody else.

She said, she was two years
old, she told them,

"You don't love me,"
she said.

And she told her mother, "You
don't love me!" she said.

She said, "How do
you know that?"

She said, "When I was falling
down, Aztrik would pick me up

and kiss the place and it
would get better.

You don't do that!"

Life has been good for me.
I worked hard

and then when I retired
I was cooking--

making jams and jellies
and cakes...

cookies...

Giving them away to friends.

I had many good friends.

And I wasn't alone at
all for this friendship.

And here also, it's the same

I slept, did I?

I'm sorry --

I drop like that --

What a fool working in the
laundry room, Serkis.

He named his
bird Yolanda!

What a name, Yolanda!

Press 2.

You're just standing
staring at the door.

Do you think
life is a dream?

It's not a dream.
It's an illusion.

An illusion.

Yes.

So you believe in
life after life?

We'll find out,

on the other side.

Yes. We will all turn into
soil one day.

Would we find heaven?

Would we find hell?

Not so clear where
we would end up.

1, 2, 3, 4
I was here before.

Life is like that.

Revolution!

Now here-- I'm not happy
and not unhappy.

I'm... like this.

I read. I spend my time to
play a little, not too much.

Before I used to play, three
hours, four hours.

But now I cannot play three
hours, four hours.

But slowly, one hour
or two hours.

I play the old songs.
The old pieces,

I cannot play the new ones.

I have an idea.

You don't have to ask to --

We have to think about --

I was thinking,

I was thinking that

I need somebody
in my life.

Because my life
is empty now.

Alright, music,
things like this.

I don't know yours.

We can arrange something
together if you want.

As...

to live separately.

Being married.

Think.

This is things that...

You cannot say yes.

I don't have a

character of jealousy.

If you want you
can go to the --

You can go to the
lawyer, if you want.
Everything what you want.

But, your advantage,

you have a small
advantage that

I will die before you.

You cannot
bargain with death.

You will have all my --

I don't have big money.

I have my retreat. About
2,000 euros or 3,000.

You think.

Because I feel good with you.
You're nice with me.

I don't get bored with you.
Do you understand?

You understand?

If you say to me, "I want to
go with my friends, to dance."

Alright, it's not a problem.

It's natural.

It's natural because I have
75 years and you have 30.

This is the --

Look, look.

It's light over there.

Go to the light.
Go to the light.

Beautiful. Beautiful.
Beautiful.

Stop, stop.

Stop, stop.

Stop, stop.

Stop, stop.

Look at me. Look at me.
Look at me.

Take a look. Take a look.
Take a look.

Very beautiful.

The car hit you as it
was moving backwards?

Yes.

Do you have any
pain in your body?

In my back, and my
chest also hurts.

- It hurts in the back
and in the front?
- Yes.

- It was a truck.
- A truck?

My God!

- I couldn't see
the backside.
- I see, I see.

What can we do?
This is the third time.

The third time!
I hope God will protect you.

The policeman at
the station said,

"Look, God gave you three
chances. At the fourth one,
you will die," he says.

Then I said, "Let God save
me and take you instead!"

He laughed. He understood
that I was joking.

You are too young to have
accidents like this.

That's not how it should be.

The drivers are inexperienced,
what can I do!?

The drivers are
inexperienced!

All happens for a reason.

The Fatih Avenue
is so wide!

The light is green when
I start walking,

but before I reach the other
side the light is already
red and the cars are racing.

You need to always
be on your guard.

Yea.

I get so scared.

Two times I couldn't figure out
which direction Kurtulus was,
so I crossed the avenue twice.

At the lights where the
underpass is --

- You should just cross
at the next light.
- At the next light, right?

When the light changes, the
cars stop. Then there is a gap,
you could just cross there!

That's true. That's true.

- Why should you wait
at the first light...
- That's true.

I am very sad for you,
I will pray for you.

No need for that,
God is on top of it.

Is there a pain in your arm?

When you write your book,

don't write my real name.

Find a -- Selma.

Call me Selma,
or somebody.

I don't want anybody to see
that book with my name in it.

It's dangerous.

Because I'm afraid.

We have lived here. We have
seen many things.

They would torture me.

What I told you was the truth.

Christmas, Christmas.

Hello. Goodnight.

Christmas, Christmas.

Christmas, Christmas.

Hello. Goodnight.

Christmas, Christmas.

Omer, brother, it's late.
Get up.

Come on. Good morning.

Get up, it's time.

You need to pay
the bride's family.

- That's a heavy
responsibility.
- Yes.

- How old are you?
- 22.

Why didn't you learn
any jobs so far?

Brother, how could I?

For instance, learning
electricity...

Only fields, that's it. We
only worked in the fields.

Anyway. Now you are here.

Learn it here, there
is not much being
an unskilled laborer.

In only two years,
now you are 22,

you could be a chief
when you are 24.

You can't be an unskilled
laborer, they can lay you off.

Once you have a title, a
craft, and a good fortune,

you can go to Russia, America,
you can work everywhere.

Without a craft, it's hard.
You would do only cleaning
or shoveling.

It's hard. Think about it.

You'll get married soon,
have a wife and kids.

Here now you get 1500,

when you become a chief, you
would get 5000.

Once you become a chief,

you can bring kiwi or
banana to your house,
instead of oranges.

Which one is better?

It's better to get
a higher salary.

Maybe you could eat these
once or twice a year,
when you get 1500.

When you get 5000,

you can fill your house
with them, and eat them
as you please.

It's like that.

Be always alert when you are
working. Don't get sleepy.

- Don't be lazy.
- I won't.

Seven friends we
went to Moda Beach.

We jumped into the
water one by one...

We swam far away...

We were talking
while swimming.

We talked about
this and that.

After 10 or 15 minutes
had passed...

we realized we swam
far from the coast.

But we weren't seven
people anymore.

We were six.

One of us said, "There was
seven of us when we came.

What happened?

Stephan is not here.

Stephan, our friend,
where is he?"

We looked around,
we couldn't see him.

We looked towards the beach,
Stephan was not there.
Stephan was not there...

"Hurry up friends,
our friend is in trouble.

Let's swim back quickly!"
We swam back immediately.

We went back, "Stephan,
where are you?"

We searched here and there...
everywhere...

"Did you see from where he
went to the sea?

Let's go and check there."

We went to where he
jumped into the water.

We saw him at the bottom of
the sea - there he was!

He was kneeling down,

he was like a stone.

One of us dived in right away,
grabbed him and brought
him to the surface.

We put him over the pier.

We massaged his body.

We stretched his arms.

We opened his mouth,

blew breath in,
blew breath in.

At the end,

he inhaled and
came back to life.

He didn't swallow any water!

All that time at the
bottom of the sea,
for about 30 minutes,

he didn't swallow any water.

He was very stiff,

maybe because of how
cold the water was...

The water must've
locked up his body...

Without swallowing water,

with his mouth closed,

without breathing,

he stayed down
there intact...