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'Yellow Letters' review: 'The Teachers' Lounge' director delivers a modern-day political parable that's strongly acted but hampered by vagueness

For his follow-up to the tense and claustrophobic German middle school drama, The Teachers' Lounge, director Ilker Çatak has attempted something both more ambitious and more mystifying: a tale of ...
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‘Yellow Letters’ Review: A Turkish Artist Couple Fractures but Never Falls Apart in ‘Teachers’ Lounge’ Director’s Politically Vexed Latest

Berlin: İlker Çatak's thought-provoking, politically rousing drama follows a pair of thespians pushed out of Ankara and into Istanbul because of state censorship. “The Teachers’ Lounge” ...
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‘Yellow Letters’ Review: İlker Çatak’s Turkey-Set Political Drama Has Much To Say About Current State Of Right-Leaning West — Berlin Film Festival

Set in Turkey and filmed on location in Germany with no attempt to hide the artifice, the trenchantly honest and terrifically acted new film from The Teachers’ Lounge director Ilker Çatak might be the ...