Innocence of Memories
Grant Gee, 2015, 97 min

Grant Gee turns his lens to Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk, Istanbul and the Museum of Innocence – both actual and fictional – that he opened there. Gliding through the streets of the city, the film narrates the forbidden love affair between wealthy Kemal and shop assistant Fusun, told through the trinkets, photos and household objects displayed like clues in the cabinets of this beguiling space of memorialization. Based on the novel by the same author, Innocence of Memories mixes imagined narratives with real-world reflections, untangling the fictional narrator’s recollections of a story tucked in the cobbles of the city as in the words of a book.

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