[critical] SUMMER OF BLOOD

“Erik Sparrow has a good job and a relationship stable, but is what he really deserves ? Probably not. When his girlfriend proposed marriage, he did not have the good sense to accept. From there, his life turns ; to his girlfriend the reach and Erik begins to despair. One night, he meets Gavin, an enigmatic stranger who asks him if he wants to die. Erik agrees, and wakes up the next morning, turned. It feels stronger and more confident, but it is attacks by horrible stomach pains that only one thing can calm down… the blood !” It was expected the film was going to greatly disappoint us during this new edition of the Champs-Elysées Film Festival. Well with SUMMER OF BLOOD, Onur Tukel is not missed. Kind of Woody Allen new generation, the Turkish developer book here a movie to self-centeredness, unhealthy and unfortunately assumed, a work of which it would be well, a thing that one would like to quickly forget.

“A disaster, a disaster, a disappointment.”

The initial discomfort caused by SUMMER OF BLOOD, this is obviously the surprésence on the screen of Onur Tukel. Actor, director, screenwriter and film editor of the SUMME OF BLOOD, it is of all the plans, all the film, all the disaster. Because, yes, we can here speak of a disaster. If the side neurotic of the characters they interpret promptly Cate Blanchet in the last film of Woody Allen (BLUE JASMINE), we quickly realized that the incessant stream of Erik Sparrow is only there to compensate for a clear lack of idea at the level of the scenario. Absolutely ridiculous, the idea of combining the talk of a quarantenaire without interest to a plot vampiresque is most ludicrous and distressing. As for the main character and for the spectators. By making a chain of scenes without any flavor, we are constantly asked where the director is coming from. So yes, we all understood that its main character, and him-not even analogy, suffer from a problem in the face of the commitment. But was it really necessary that we inflict on 86 minutes absolutely hollow just for that? I doubt it. By chance, Onur Tukel has had the tact to put, at times, some of the lines of scathing and them into jubilant. But it is never caught, unfortunately not the countless errors already committed. Among them, plans poorly cut, the actors are dull, the plot preposterous, work photography non-existent, and a music plombante.

Because we understand that there are many who will appreciate the object film that is not identified, it should be noted that the cinema, like any art, is highly subjective. But even without being a fan of the characters of neurotic way Woody Allen or horror films in a broader sense, it should be recognized that this SUMMER OF BLOOD is full of faux pas, indigestible, shocking and quite simply chaotic. If he had been amputated of its second part, the result would have been more appreciable. In trying on the problems of racial and gender of its main character, Onur Tukel bored and annoys as much as it impresses us with its claim. Damage.

The champs-Elysées Film Festival 2014

• Original title : Summer of Blood

• Achievement : Onur Tukel

• Screenplay : Onur Tukel

• Main actors : Onur Tukel

• Country of origin : United States

• Output : coming SOON

• Duration : 1h26mn

• Distributor : New Europe Film

• Synopsis : Erik Sparrow has a good job and a relationship stable, but is what he really deserves ? Probably not. When his girlfriend proposed marriage, he did not have the good sense to accept. From there, his life turns ; to his girlfriend the reach and Erik begins to despair. One night, he meets Gavin, an enigmatic stranger who asks him if he wants to die. Erik agrees, and wakes up the next morning, turned. It feels stronger and more confident, but it is attacks by horrible stomach pains that only one thing can calm down… the blood !