Comments on: Sadece Sen (2014) Film Review – A Gritty, Romantic Turkish Drama of Love and Sacrifice

By: Amber Topping

Amber Topping — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:48:12 +0000

In reply to Gene. Thanks!

By: Gene

Gene — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:03:07 +0000

Hello,
Since you are out searching for love stories, have you ever watched the series “The girl named Feriha” ? It is a soppy cliche series but irresistible to watch. The chemistry between Emir & Feriha is simply unbelievable. Hazal Kaya (Feriha) is now a famous star in Turkey and Cagatay Ulusoy is the Protector guy in Netflix.
The acting, especially Zehra (Feriha’s mother) is phenomenal.
Here is the first episode if you want to start watching:

By: Amber Topping

Amber Topping — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 17:39:17 +0000

In reply to winnie johnson. It really is an underrated gem!

By: winnie johnson

winnie johnson — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 19:11:42 +0000

I watched the korean version of this movie and i would love to watch it with english subtitles . i think it would be easier to appreciate. i definitely think that i would enjoy as much. however, the emotions that i get from watching the Turkish version is so enveloping , that i couldn’t ever imagine not having seen this version. It puts you there in that place and time . Ibrahim did an outstanding job of conveying his broken spirit . Belcim did an outstanding job conveying her optimism and acceptance of being blind as a punishment for her parents death. I will have to watch this movie at least 15 times to savor and unpeel the layers of gems in this movie.

By: winnie johnson

winnie johnson — Mon, 22 Nov 2021 17:51:25 +0000

i loved loved loved this movie and these two actors. he is gorgeous and she is lovely. i did watch intersection and i agree whole hardly about the ending. it was incomplete and very dissatisfying to me. to learn that their father wasn’t their father, ali didn’t seem to know who was or did leak the stories about him and Kaan’s mom disdem. or maybe i missed it. Murat was an antagonist for sure but it would also seem that the fake father was most definetly. However despite this it was still great acting. Another great series is Sen Alat Karadeniz . You can watch it on youtube. if you have a computer, you can get it to auto translate into english. The very first episode is translated. It is fascintating compelling and a beautiful story of a woman named Nefes and her struggle from being sold by her father into a abusive captive relationship to being rescued by a tiger from the black sea. Its not corny and it shows how strong we as humans can be especially women. It does highlight turkish culture in terms of islam but i thought it was very informative .. It was very real and not fairytale in some respects. If you love family in a collective sense which i do , then you will love this series. It ran for 3 years. i hope you get to check it out. The Turkish men were very expressive emotionally in this one as well.Turkish people remind me of Greek people and Italian in that they can be very excitable and loud.(lol) I worked around Greek people like this. I am black and my culture of people here in the south are definetly excitable or loud like this as well.LOL

By: shima

shima — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 18:36:09 +0000

In reply to Cristal. If you are interested in him , there are more fascinated series he has played in such as siyah beyaz ask and merhamat

By: peggy

peggy — Wed, 10 Feb 2021 05:20:47 +0000

I loved this movie. The acting and storyline was superb. I saw intersection and I felt they failed in the ending, not bringing the two main characters together at the end. Winter Sun is brilliant. I hope they redeem Intersection since those two actors have s much chemistry. Sadece Sen was warm and touching, have seen it over and over again. I skip the boxing but the movie is wonderful.

By: Lolo

Lolo — Sun, 26 Jul 2020 18:12:30 +0000

I’m a little late to the party, but…..What a great review! I LOVE foreign films for the same reasons you described.

I also recently discovered Turkish series and agree with everyone about how compl ex and layered the plots are – very character-driven without gratuitous sex, yet deeply romantic and well-written (except for season 3 of Intersection…what happened?!! Maybe the leads had other film commitments, sheesh.)
. I hardly watch American series these days.

Black Money Love ((Kara Para Ask) is AMAZING. Love love love – almost at the end, don’t want it to be over.

I recommend this series on Netflix from Colombia, – Queen of Flow- for the same reasons I love the Turkish series.

I Just started All for Love (Colombia) on Netflix with the male antagonist of Queen of Flow as the romantic heroic lead…so far so good! It’s my back up to when Black ,Money Love ends.

Keep up the good reviews!

By: Dennis

Dennis — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 23:06:02 +0000

I completely agree about the depth of Turkish love films. Last Fall I watched ‘Love, Loves Coincidences” which is the English translation of the Turkish title. It also stars Belcim Bilgin and was available on Netflix. I never thought I’d see another movie that was as touching and romantically gripping as it was. Like Sadece Send, it is unpredictable and had a heart wrenching twist at the end. (Tissues required). If you liked Sadece Sen, you’ll like Love, Loves Coincidences, as well.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 01:38:34 +0000

I strongly recommend the Turkish series Kiralik Ask (60 episodes in total) – romantic comedy/
The chemistry between the main actors (Baris Arduc & Elcin Sangu) is fantastic.
After finishing this serie they made a movie (1h 40 min) Mutluluk Zamani – worth watching – it will made your day. I became a big fun of ElBar