‘To all the women who struggle to exist in this world’: The Cannes Award-winning Dry Herbs actress is one of the discoveries of 2023.

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There are thirteen young teachers in a remote village in Anatolia. While he waits for several years to move to Istanbul, a series of events make him lose all hope. Until he meets a young teacher like him, Nurei…

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Saturday, May 27, 2023. Although the predictions were in favor of Sandra Huhler (Anatomy of the Fall and Zone of Interest) or Alicia Vikander (The Game of Queens), it was the eighth Dizdar’s name that sounded when he became the winner of the best. The actor award was announced at the 76th Cannes Film Festival.

Almost to the general surprise of both the public and the main stakeholder who immediately acknowledges the existence “I’m so excited that I’m at a loss for words and I feel like I’ve forgotten Turkish, my mother tongue”Until the stage at the Palais de Festival of Festivals erupted in laughter.

Unknown in France, even if he appears in the credits of the Netflix series Le Touche-à-tout, the actor shines in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s new river drama. At 3h17, the length of the film, which was not the longest at this last Cannes festival, his role is secondary among the actors (and the village) very masculine.

But it is difficult, if not impossible, to miss. Both its character and energy radiate from this dry grass. Particularly successful during the dinner scene, as tense as a thriller, where she let her acting intensity speak for itself and a commitment that is also expressed off-screen, far from the fixed frames of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s paintings.

After thanking the partners and the director and asking to return to the chair without stopping the music, the eighth Dizdar entered the second part of the speech. More political, which earned him the title “terrorist” by some leaders of the AKP, the Justice and Development Party to which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan belongs.

I was born in a country where I don’t even need to study, observe and repeat, because I know very well what a woman is in Turkey.

“I dreamed of winning this prize”recognizes his winner. “And I prepared a little speech that I want to read to you: the character that I play in the film, Noorei, is a man who is fighting for his existence and who has overcome many difficulties.”

“Usually I would have to work at this role to be good at it, but I was born in a country where I don’t even have to learn, observe or repeat because I know so well what it is. There is a woman in Turkey. I want to dedicate this award to all the women who, like Murray, fight to overcome difficulties, to exist in this world and to keep hope.”

Hope and better days are questioned by the heroes of Dry Herbs who want to leave their village to open the horizon. A film, certainly demanding, in its length or long dialogue scenes in a fixed frame, but in which we manage to get carried away. And where the eighth Dizdar, certainly one of the revelations of this film year, grabs all the limelight and attention as soon as it enters the frame.