Recently nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, the release of Mustang is a fitting time to reflect on the genre as a whole, and explore ten affecting examples deserving wider recognition. ![]() Their stories are inherently dramatic, but more than that, they’re inherently cinematic – exploring the subjective and sexual gaze, projection of imagination onto reality, and the newly discovered textures of lips and skin.ĭeniz Gamze Erguven’s Mustang is a startling drama about the conservative strictures of a small Turkish village, and how the lives of five orphaned girls – in various stages of adolescence and puberty – are forever changed under their enforcement. Unsurprisingly, the genre presents rich subject matter for first-time filmmakers, whose own coming-of-age is an unlimited inspiration. These are films that fulfill our desire to reclaim experience from memory – to relive, in another body, those formative encounters which first ushered us into adulthood. ![]() The coming-of-age genre is a cinema of first times moments that, once experienced, can never be replicated with the same knotted sensation of yearning, timidity, and joy.
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