Borserie it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

samkoseoglu The opening scene of a movie is one of the most important scenes, covering some elements of cinema. "Yol" opens with an expressive, intense sound harmony that is synthesizer, and its high volume, and the guardian's voice of notifying the prisoners about the letters sent to them. One can clearly feel the hope of all the prisoners with this shivery musical tone. Their losses, expectations, melancholy, and radically quailed struggles are revealed early; however, this earliness is what the movie needs, thereof, the dramatic theme finalizes itself right on time, rather, apropos.Tolstoy's famous novel, "Resurrection", is one of best examples underlining the situation of political prisoners, and the laws. Yilmaz Güney's depiction of the prisoners situation with some scenes like the train voyage, recaptures the parts of Tolstoy's great book and its criticism. Rural area and the people of living dogmas, crime and marriage, are effectively connected. With a taste of authenticity, you feel the critical remarks behind. Having already won Palme d'Or in 1982, this movie deserves the prize of folk, and deserves to be announced as one of the best movies of Turkish Cinema.

fgfbach Here is a very extraordinary Turkish film with many different characters dealing with very different problems at the same time, one of the greatest examples of "cross-cutting" form, and whats more, beautifully done ! i have never seen such a strong edited Turkish film in my life and i seem to be unlikely to find any other, because people tend to watch easy things without too much difficulty. If you want to see pure reality of Turkish rural people in 80s, especially the ones suffer from jails because of murder etc, and if you like to see very interesting scenes from rural life, and finally, if you are crazy for strong edited films, then this one will give you a definite satisfaction ...

nassarsamuel28 The review of the movie caught my attention. The cast the story the social life and Kurds social structure the women how they were treated, honor and revenge all these elements disclosed in the movie in such phenomenal way.What touched me is when Mehmet came over to get his wife back admitting his mistake the scene where the kids watching.. or where Zene screaming her husband name to not leaving in mountain stranded for the beast and Seyit when he was carrying his wife slapping her to wake up. I give 3 thumb up.I realized how important to look to my life in different perspective.Mehmet "Halil Ergun and Tarik Akan" Seyit were the perfect husband in their own way.. I will look for their work from now on

mcfloodhorse In this superb and rather restrained film, the soft, earthy and underexposed visual style juxtaposes the harsh sonic shrieks of a child playing violin, train whistles and screeching breaks, howling wolves in the wind, and a woman screaming for her life in an arctic wasteland. Similarly, the simplicity and passivity of the prisoners is contrasted with the mechanistic social and structural violence surrounding them.There's a strange innocence to the way in which most of the main characters in this film use their fleeting moments of freedom to further imprison themselves in pain, obligation and debt. Of the five stoic, yet gentle prisoners given a week's parole to travel to their respective homes, all of them are transported into different contexts of confinement -- whether emotional, psychological or physical -- full of restrictions and seemingly foregone conclusions.Restrictions on the freedom of movement, sexual urges, existential choice, gender roles and other forms of social behavior creates a kind of emotional numbness in the main characters' (and their wives')already drained dispositions. In light of their inability to negotiate their surroundings, it seems as though many of them willingly succumb to what they might perceive as a pre-determined fate.Looking at just one of the five stories: after arriving home, one of the men is encouraged to kill his adulterous wife in order to save the family reputation while she's held in isolation as a prisoner in a remote mountain village. The roles have now been reversed and the situation grows in complexity to the point where the man's indecisiveness contributes to his wife's death in a vast, frozen landscape. In the film's greatest sequence, the man takes his wife and son back across the arctic emptiness where the carcass of his abandoned horse -- one of the many symbols of freedom and strength in the film-- lies picked apart by birds, wolves and the wind in the very place where his wife will die, providing the perfect image of a man, a woman, a child and a country exposed, ravaged and forsaken in an emotional wasteland.