`Lola and Billy the Kid': A Turkish Transvestite Just Wants Happiness November 19, 1999 FILM REVIEW `Lola and Billy the Kid': A Turkish Transvestite Just Wants Happiness Related Articles. Forum. By ANITA GATES sman, a proudly macho Turkish taxi driver living in Berlin, wants Murat, his gorgeous, baby-faced younger brother, to lose his virginity. Osman wants it so much that he drags Murat out of the taxi and over to a prostitute who has just agreed to a fee of 100 marks (about $50) for the assignment. Murat (Baki Davrak), however, runs away. Murat is young, but he knows he's gay, and in 'Lola and Billy the Kid,' a well-meaning German-Turkish drama with a message, he learns just how difficult coming out can be.
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If Kutlug Ataman, the film's writer and director, is on target, some Turkish families living in Germany are so homophobic that they make Newt Gingrich look like the president of Act Up. Lola (Gandi Mukli), a transvestite who works at a Berlin club, turns out to be a relative of Murat's; Lola's family did not react well to the discovery that he was gay. Now Lola is in love with a black-leather-jacket guy who calls himself Billy the Kid (Erdal Yildiz), spelled Bilidikid in German, and things would be fine if it weren't for Billy's attitude. He's so horrified about being gay that he wants Lola to have sex-change surgery so they can marry and live normally like everybody else (his words). Lola wonders, 'Why can't we just be happy like we are?'
The film is Murat's search for his own identity, which involves getting to know Lola. There is a sometimes amusing subplot about Friedrich (Michael Gerber), an older gay German man who drives a fabulous Daimler convertible and falls for Iskender (Murat Yilmaz), a hirsute Turkish prostitute with attitude. The finest moments in the film involve Iskender; Friedrich's white-haired little-dog-toting mother, Ute (Inge Keller), and an extremely valuable brooch.
'Lola and Billy the Kid' has an important social message, but it's delivered in a much too heavy-handed and simplistic fashion to have the impact it should. The film is not rated, but it includes strong profanity (the film is in German and Turkish with English subtitles), a number of discreet sex scenes and one extended scene of disturbing violence. PRODUCTION NOTES 'LOLA AND BILLY THE KID' Written and directed by Kutlug Ataman; in Turkish and German, with English subtitles; director of photography, Chris Squires; edited by Ewa J. Cerwin vega d1 specs. Lind; production designer, John Di Minico; produced by Martin Hagemann; released by Picture This Entertainment. Running time: 94 minutes. This film is not rated. WITH: Gandi Mukli (Lola), Erdal Yildiz (Bili), Baki Davrak (Murat), Masut Ozdemir (Kalipso), Celal Perk (Shehrazade), Hasan Ali Mete (Osman), Michael Gerber (Friedrich), Murat Yilmaz (Iskender) and Inge Keller (Ute).
Contents. Plot Seventeen-year-old Murat, from Turkey but living in Berlin, Germany with his mother and older brother Osman, seems to be struggling with his sexuality while Osman, head of the household since the father’s death and a taxi driver, strongly urges Murat to lose his virginity to a woman. However, suspecting that Murat is gay and believing that his Turkish background makes him lesser of a person, some boys from Murat’s school harass and beat him. Meanwhile, Lola, a Turkish male who dresses as a female, argues with his boyfriend, a “macho” Turkish male named Bilidikid (Billy), about returning to Turkey.
Billy wants Lola to get a sex reassignment (from male to female) and move with him, but Lola refuses, knowing that if he had the surgery, Billy would leave him. After discovering that Lola is his brother who was disowned by Osman and their father for being gay, Murat runs away from home and meets Lola in the bar in which he works. The two begin to develop a relationship, but Lola mysteriously disappears, leaving Murat at the mercy of Billy, who uses Murat in his business of earning money for receiving oral intercourse. Soon thereafter, Lola is discovered dead in a river. Billy convinces Murat that he knows who killed Lola, but thinks that they need to take the matter into their own hands rather than letting the police deal with the matter. Two friends of Lola, who also work at the bar, reveal to Murat that when Osman discovered that Lola was gay, Osman raped her. When Lola stood up to him, Osman threw her out of the house.
The friends warn Murat that Billy is the same type of person that Osman is. Murat dresses as Lola, using Lola's red wig to feign his identity. Murat, with Billy lingering in the background, confronts the boys that Billy says are guilty of murdering Lola.
After chasing these three boys, Billy castrates one boy and stabs a second one, just as the second boy shoots him, killing them both. Murat is left with the third boy, who says they had no knowledge of Lola’s murder. Upon his return home, Murat discovers that Osman was, in fact, the one who murdered Lola.
Hearing Murat’s accusation and Osman’s admittance of guilt, the boys’ mother slaps Osman and, accompanied by Murat, leaves their home, discarding her hijab. Subplot Iskender, a friend of Lola and Billy who is also Turkish, meets a rich German man, Friedrich, for oral intercourse in a park. The two continue to see each other fairly regularly, but Friedrich is far more interested in a relationship than Iskender. However, after the death of Lola, Iskender admits to Friedrich that he would like to have a committed relationship with Friedrich. Friedrich’s mother is not pleased with the relationship, as she is protective of her son, and tempts Iskender with more wealth than he has ever known if he will only leave Friedrich. Iskender wants nothing of her money or wealth; he only wants Friedrich.
Hearing the love that Iskender has for her son, Friedrich’s mother decides that Iskender passed her test and, therefore, approves of their relationship.
Lola And Billy The Kid Movie
Storyline of Lola and Billy the Kid Movie When young Turkish talent Kutlug Ataman wanted to make a film about transvestites, the first location he had in mind was Istanbul. As he developed the script, his thought was to place these marginal characters, who are subject to societal prejudices in an environment where there is already discrimination, would add dramatic effect. Supported by funding from German sources, Ataman set his story in Berlin, inside the community of 'guest workers' where Turkish transvestites are shunned not only by Germans, but by their own kind as well. The result is a strong film with moments of tenderness, emotion and laughter juxtaposed with the harsh realities of life for those who dare to be different. 16 year old Murat (Baki Davrak) is a Turk who is curious about gay life and eventually submerges himself in the gay hustler and transvestite subculture. Watch Online Movie for Free. Join the a large number of members who had already been able to appreciate these movies online.
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Plot: When young Turkish talent Kutlug Ataman wanted to make a film about transvestites, the first location he had in mind was Istanbul. As he developed the script, his thought was to place these marginal characters, who are subject to societal prejudices in an environment where there is already discrimination, would add dramatic effect. Supported by funding from German sources, Ataman set his story in Berlin, inside the community of 'guest workers' where Turkish transvestites are shunned not only by Germans, but by their own kind as well. The result is a strong film with moments of tenderness, emotion and laughter juxtaposed with the harsh realities of life for those who dare to be different. 16 year old Murat (Baki Davrak) is a Turk who is curious about gay life and eventually submerges himself in the gay hustler and transvestite subculture.
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