LIFELONG

>>>BEST CINEMATOGRAPHER AWARD
ISTANBUL FILM FESTIVAL

"...Luminous lensing..."
VARIETY, LESLIE FELPERIN

"...Thanks to cinematographer Emre Erkmen’s inventive design imagination, middle-aged disintegration has rarely looked so well-composed. A shot of the spiral stairwell, seen from top to bottom, looks like an unblinking omnipresent metal eye that witnesses everything..." SCREENDAILY, DAVID DARCY

"...Filmed in austere widescreen compositions by D.P. Emre Erkmen and set predominantly in a cold, modernist house that serves to further isolate the couple, Lifelong is reminiscent of such angst-ridden conjugal portraits as Michelangelo Antonioni’s La Notte or Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage, although it rarely packs their dramatic punch and often crawls ahead at a snail’s pace, which makes the 110-minute running time seem excessive..." THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER , Jordan Mintzer