Review: Mustang
 

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Female empowerment in the context of real-world circumstances is not a topic often explored by American movies, whether they come from male-dominated Hollywood or the only marginally more progressive American independent film scene. So maybe it?s fitting that the extraordinary Mustang ? which uses the story of five free-spirited, mostly teenage sisters to explore the oppressive patriarchal society of modern-day Turkey ? comes from the imagination of director and co-writer Deniz Gamze Erguven, a 37-year-old Turkish-born, French-raised woman making her feature film debut.?