''AV: The Hunt'', also known as ''AV'' and also stylized as ''Av The Hunt'', is a 2020 thriller film that was directed by Emre Akay.
Plot
Ayşe is a married woman who has been conducting an affair behind her husband's back. When this infidelity is discovered, the men in her family react violently. Her lover ends up dead in the process and Ayşe must find a way to flee to Istanbul, where she will be safe. She is given no help from her family, as they have disowned her, and even the people around her seem ambivalent at best to her obvious plight.
Cast
* Billur Melis Koç as Ayşe
* Ahmet Rıfat Şungar as Sedat
*
Yağız Can Konyalı
* Adam Bay as Ahmet
* Kenan Acar
* Baki Rıdvan Kaymaz
* Emre Yetim
* Ayşe Özköylü
Development
During the creation process Akay received an award for ''AV: The Hunt'' from the Antalya Film Forum.
Release
''AV: The Hunt'' had its world premiere in
Switzerland
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at the
Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival in July 2020, after which it screened at several other film festivals throughout the world such as
FrightFest.
Reception
''AV: The Hunt'' holds a rating of on
Rotten Tomatoes
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, based on reviews. Multiple reviews praised the acting of Billur Melis Koç, with
Screen Anarchy noting that she "does the vast majority of the heavy lifting" and comparing her favorably to
Matilda Lutz
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in ''
Revenge
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''.
Kim Newman also praised the acting and wrote that "It’s relentless and exciting, but also grim – with a sense of the monotonousness of entrenched male evil that’s hard to argue with but dramatically a little flat."
Awards
* Best Film Award at Birmingham Cine-Excess (2020, won)
References
External links
* {{IMDb title, 8131720
2020 films
2020 thriller films
2020s chase films
2020s feminist films
Turkish thriller films
2020s Turkish-language films