Synopsis
In 1915 a man survives the Armenian genocide in the Ottoman Empire, but loses his family, speech and faith. One night he learns that his twin daughters may be alive, and goes on a quest to find them.
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Cast
- Tahar RahimNazaret Manoogian
- Simon AbkarianKrikor
- Makram J. KhouryOmar Nasreddin
- Hindi ZahraRakel
- Kevork MalikyanHagob Nakashian
- Bartu KüçükçağlayanMehmet
- Trine DyrholmOrphanage Headmistress
- Moritz BleibtreuPeter Edelman
- Arsinée KhanjianFrau Nakashian
- Akin GaziHrant
Recommendations
- 70
Village Voice
Ultimately, the film's wearying qualities pay off both as verisimilitude — you do feel like you've been through something — and as awe-inspiring history, making visceral art out of a global migration. - 60
CineVue
A well-behaved and unashamedly populist film, the kind that could be shown in schools and community centres, Akin's The Cut remains an undeniably important film regardless. What it does extremely well is to movingly illustrate a terrible moment in history which has been sadly neglected in the West and actively suppressed in other parts of the world. - 60
The Guardian
It’s a big, ambitious, continent-spanning piece of work, concerned to show the Armenian horror was absorbed into the bloodstream of immigrant-descended population in the United States, but it is a little simplistic emotionally. - 58
IndieWire
Akin ultimately fails to make the material work, especially in the second half of the film, when it develops into a disappointing adventure story. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
Rahim has a great face but isn’t given enough opportunity to make it clear to audiences what his character is going through beyond the most basic emotions. - 50
Slant Magazine
Fatih Akin falls back on convenience and contrivance to streamline the thornier specificities of his grand-scale narrative. - 50
The A.V. Club
The director’s assured tracking shots follow Nazaret through one bustling, disorienting locale after another as he searches for help, family, and relief from his hardship. Yet like the film, they’re ultimately superficial gestures that maintain a detached perspective on their subject, incapable of penetrating his traumatized mind and tormented heart. - 42
The Playlist
The story is bloated and episodic (the film's 2h 18m length doesn't help the pacing), and remarkably unengaging for what should be emotionally epic.
