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Time to Love

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1965 · 89 min Drama Romance
7.6 / 10 · TMDB

Poor but proud painter Halil secures work at a villa on the Princes’ Islands south of Istanbul, where rainy days are steeped in longing. Amid the quiet solitude, he discovers a photograph of a beautiful, unknown woman and falls helplessly in love with her image. His reality begins to fray, consumed by an obsession born from a single portrait. Halil drifts into a world crafted from his own projections and fantasies, where the line between imagined devotion and a real encounter grows dangerously faint, all set against the misty backdrop of the island's timeless seclusion.

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Original Title Sevmek Zamanı
Year 1965
Country Turkey
Genre Drama, Romance
Director Metin Erksan
Runtime 89 min.
Rating TMDB: 7.6/10 (97 votes)

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A haunting meditation on loving an image rather than a person. The film masterfully charts the perilous territory where desire fixates on a phantom, and emotion feeds solely on absence.

What lingers after the final frame is the film's hypnotic, painterly quality—a study in longing where every scene feels like a watercolor of rain and soft light. It leaves a resonant, melancholic echo. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Metin Erksan

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