It starts as a soap opera, after all the Turks are the owners of the popular genre, to gradually delve into the territory of the legend of Sahmaran, a half-snake woman who lives in the depths of a well and falls in love with Camasb, a young man who turns longs for a life on the surface after a while. Sahmaran understands this, allows it and asks him never to say where he lived.
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Pınar Bulut’s Turkish series, starring Serenay Sarikaya and Burak Deniz, loosely adapts the legend: Camasb is now Maran, and Sashu is an attractive teacher who comes to the city of Adana to hold her grandfather accountable for his indifference. in front of his mother and maybe reconciling with him, a retired teacher who would never work on a film from Antonioni’s early days because he would think they talked too much.
The truth is that Sahmaran, the eight-episode series showing Netflix, is gaining interest as its development progresses. And probably a large part of its appeal lies in its discreet use of special effects, which isn’t easy when we consider that Maran belongs to a race of basilisks, fabulous creatures that adapt to the human aspect despite believing themselves distant superior to them (they are something like the leadership of the People’s Party). Bringing to the cinema a legend of the Arabian Nights should not be easy and if, moreover, they abstain from the temptation of audiovisual technological advances, the result is curious and satisfying, which is not a little, as he said of Dawn the unforgettable José Luis Cuerda .
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