Art of Love (Romantik Hirsiz) is a Turkish romantic film released on Netflix on March 14, 2024. It is directed by Recai Karagöz and the screenplay is written by Pelin Karamehmetoglu, who also serves as a co-executive producer. The film has a runtime of about 1 hour and 39 minutes.
The story follows an Interpol investigator who devises a scheme to apprehend the art thief she has been pursuing, after discovering that he is her former romantic partner.
The cast of the film includes Birkan Sokullu as Güney, Esra Bilgiç as Alin, Fırat Tanış, Ushan Çakır as Ozan, Osman Alkaş, Nil Keser as Vera, Hakan Ummak as Ömer and several others.
Art of Love Review
Alin is a dedicated police officer who works for Interpol’s Art Crime Unit. For quite some time now, she has been on the hunt for a notorious thief who has been stealing valuable paintings from some of the most challenging-to-access museums worldwide. Despite numerous efforts, the thief’s motive remains unclear, and it’s evident that he’s not doing it for money. Since he could have stolen even more valuable artworks, he goes for some lesser-known ones which signifies love.
After years of chasing the thief, Alin finally gets a breakthrough when she identifies the thief’s next target. To her disbelief, the thief turns out to be none other than the man she once loved, Güney, a wealthy businessman who vanished into thin air when they were about to get married. His disappearance was also one of the factors that she joined Interpol and has made her distance from him since.
Now Alin has only one option: to confront Güney and catch him red-handed. She knows that this won’t be an easy task, and it might even cause her emotional pain, but she is willing to take the risk to bring the thief to justice. With her sharp intellect and her unwavering determination, Alin sets out on a mission to uncover the truth and bring the thief to justice once and for all.
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On paper, it sounds like a decent story with complex relations, changed power dynamics and the chase to catch the culprit. But when it gets translated to the screen, there’s nothing more frustrating than watching an overly emotional Alin, trying to catch her billionaire thief ex-lover and failing multiple times. It could have been understandable if the thief had outrun her creatively, leaving her in tricky mazes. But she fails to do her job despite not having any obstacles in sight. Most of all, she doesn’t even fit into the character of a police officer.
It’s even more confusing how she joined Interpol when she was presumably an art curator, before that. Similarly, the mysterious part of the story is – why the billionaire businessman Güney is stealing artworks that he can easily buy. One would think that there would be a plausible explanation for it, which would give his character and actions some depth and meaning. Unfortunately, that’s not the case and the explanation is just silly and ridiculous. If anything the rich guy needs to have some hobby that gives him some sense in life.
After the half-baked characters comes the pace of the story, which is just terrible. The story has a fixed speed and just runs on it throughout. There’s no break or moments to reel in the information that has been revealed. Everything goes by quite fast and thus none of the story retains in the mind. One can not think about what they watched and pinpoint any scene or sequence that was worth noting because you won’t remember most of it.
It is a superficial story, where they have picked up two characters who keep on finding excuses to snog each other but other than that, there’s nothing one can know or relate to. The core plot points like why the couple broke up, what was the reason, why he started to steal, what his end goal was etc, none of it have been thought through or explained. Thus, presenting a silly, with no substance story and overly dramatic performance that can’t save the hollow plot. Unless you are a fan of the actors, it’s best advised to avoid watching.
Rating: 1/5
Art of Love is available for streaming on Netflix.
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