It’s hard to disregard the “easy living” motif that covers the 10-year-old Furkan Demiri’s bed sheets in Dea Gjinovci’s “Wake Up on Mars.” The heartbreaking irony of the phrase stings, as the…
It’s hard to disregard the “easy living” motif that covers the 10-year-old Furkan Demiri’s bed sheets in Dea Gjinovci’s “Wake Up on Mars.” The heartbreaking irony of the phrase stings, as there is nothing easy about this imaginative child’s life, brought to a halt amid endless immigration machinations in a frosty Swedish town. But citizenship status isn’t the only painful impediment that puts Furkan’s six-member, asylum-seeking Kosavan family in uncertainty.
While the tight-knit, caring Demiri family, led by loving parents Muharrem and Nurje, struggles with putting their earthbound lives in order and bringing their immigration saga to a hopeful close, Furkan has plans of his own: travel to Mars, where he believes his sisters have been transported and bring them back home.
The director is unfortunately less successful with Furkan’s quirky coming-of-age tale; not so much in portraying it, but justifying its dramatic necessity when the two sisters’ lives continue to hang in the balance; the narrative priority that the audience invests in. While the young Furkan’s bright, grayish blue eyes and astonishingly camera-friendly facial gestures are Gjinovci’s cinematic assets, the director can’t seem to determine how to best weave his point of view into the film.
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