17 May 2016
“Boss Wants a Happy Ending (Patron Mutlu Son Istiyor)”---European Union Film Festival
Release Year: 2014
Country: Turkey
Director: Kivanc Baruonu
Cast: Tolga Cevik, Ezgi Mola
Location I watched: Golden Village Suntec
Story from the programme booklet:
Sinan is sent to Cappadocia by his boss, Isfendiyar to write a screenplay. As he waits for inspiration, Sinan finds himself running first into Eylul, the daughter of Izzet, who owns the hotel where he’s booked to stay, and then into soap opera star Faruk, his former good friend and present enemy.
At Cappadocia, a world-famous tourist spot, Sinan, a scenario writer falls in love with Eylul. However, she is getting married to an actor who used to be Sinan’s friend. Although “Boss Wants a Happy Ending” is not a musical, the film’s presentation and atmosphere reminds me of a Bollywood entertainment film.
This film’s title, “Boss Wants a Happy Ending” becomes a key point of the film itself. Sinan starts writing a scenario based on himself and Eylul. But, he thinks that he should not realistically spoil others’ wedding and returns to his home in Istanbul. His scenario also means ending with his broken heart. However, his boss, a studio tycoon is really unsatisfied with Sinan’s scenario. The boss said, “The audience never wants such a sad ending. Once you wrote about yourself, in order to write a happy ending, you must win this love!” While this sounds logical, but actually it does not make any sense at all. The boss gives Sinan his speech purely from money and business, while in the steam bath, surrounded by almost naked beauties. Anyway, Sinan is encouraged (?) by his boss and returns to Cappadocia in order to make a reality that he and his film wants. It is a romantic and funny metacinema. (18 May 2016)
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