Director Grant Gee presents a meditation on the Turkish writer’s Museum of Innocence and the novel of forbidden treasure that inspired itBut of course they are not innocent. Grant Gee’s absorbing essay-film is a meditation or reverie about the Nobel prizewinner Orhan Pamuk and his multimedia creation The Museum of Innocence. His 2008 novel of that title is about a forbidden treasure affair in 70s Istanbul between a man named Kemal and Füsun,the shopgirl he meets while buying a present for his fiancee. Kemal obsessively begins to gather objects associated with Fsun, with a view to creating a “museum of innocence” – and Pamuk did in fact open his associated Museum of Innocence in Istanbul in 2012. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com