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Steam
Directed by Ferzan Opetek Cleveland Cinematheque
Reviewed by Frank Green
Cleveland-It's not a happy marriage. Marta is a successful architect in Rome, and Francesco feels inadequate playing second fiddle as an interior designer. They fight all the time, their sex life is as cold as an Arctic iceberg, and, though her husband doesn't know it, Marta has been having an affair with another man. So when Francesco is summoned to Istanbul to settle the estate of a deceased aunt, it's a relief. They need a vacation from each other.
Turkey is another world, and the Italian visitor soon finds himself immersed in a stubbornly timeless culture of narrow, winding streets and sultry, misty breezes. Exploring the city one day, he comes upon an old man fainting from the heat, and helps him into a nearby building. The building turns out to be one of Istanbul's few remaining hammams, or steam baths. The old man talks him into taking off his clothes and relaxing for awhile. Another young man in the bathhouse meets his eye, and Francesco discovers the joy of unrepressed homosexuality.
Francesco goes to check out the property he has inherited, and is surprised to find that it's an ancient hammam that his aunt had purchased and refurbished. He's taken in by a Turkish family who had worked as caretakers for the hammam, and who functioned as a second family for his expatriate aunt. Though his original intention was to sell the place and return to Rome, Francesco falls in love with the ancient walls of the hammam, and decides to remain in Istanbul to refurbish it again. The only problem is a wealthy and dangerous developer who wants to the buy
the place and turn it into a lumber warehouse. Francesco discovers a series of lyrical letters his late aunt had written to his mother, and it's not long before he realizes that they share a passionate sensibility. Like Aunt Anita, he's nostalgic for the grandeur of the past, and falls in love with the ethereal mysticism of Istanbul. He begins an affair with Mehmet, the beautiful son of his newly adopted family, and for the first time in years, he's happy. The love scenes between the two young men are erotically suggestive rather than pornographic, emphasizing sensuality and a voluptuous kind of joy.
Marta is all but forgotten until she shows up in Istanbul one day to ask for a divorce. She sees the change in her husband, and doesn't understand why he's being so distant. At least he used to fight with her. When she peeks through the doorway of the hammam one night and catches him making love with Mehmet, she's angry at first. But her anger turns to understanding when Francesco explains that he's finally found happiness. Marta, too, begins to question the way she leads her life in Rome. The fast pace and obsession with money and shallow relationships she's accustomed to lose their allure.
Steam: The Turkish Bath was written and directed by Ferzan Opetek, a Turk with twenty years experience in the Italian film industry as an assistant director. Its rhythmic Sufi music, sensual imagery, ethereal mysticism, poetic language, and languid pace were a big hit at the Cleveland International Film Festival earlier this year, and the movie has won numerous awards at film festivals around the like a world. It's steamy in a refreshing way, misty breeze, the perfect antidote to a hot summer day.
Steam plays at the Cleveland Cinematheque on Friday, August 13 at 7:30 pm and Saturday, August 14 at 9:15 pm.