![]() ![]() Using the form of ancient comedy with the occasional appearance of director Aksu himself playing the darbuka along with a band of misfits, “Ecotopia” is a raucous comedy bringing together tired city dwellers hoping to return to nature and ignorant villagers trying to find their way between the conditions of rural village life and opportunities to make more cash. And it’s also an inspiration to a bus full of city intellectuals, so-called eco-anarchists, who are hoping to establish their own Ecotopia in a village in Turkey’s Aegean region in director Yüksel Aksu’s second feature, “Entelköy Efeköy’e Karşı” (Ecotopia). ![]() The Ecotopia in the novel was an inspiration to counterculture and the green movement in 1970s America. ![]() The 1975 novel “Ecotopia” – or “Ecotopia: The Notebooks and Reports of William Weston” as the full name goes – by American writer Ernest Callenbach describes one of the very first ecological utopias, where people established their alternative society as a reaction to consumption, food full of chemicals and polluted air. ‘Ecotopia’ is a raucous comedy bringing together tired city dwellers hoping to return to nature and ignorant villagers trying to find their way between the conditions of rural village life and opportunities to make more cash. ![]() ‘Ecotopia’ unites villagers against eco-villagers EMRAH GÜLER ISTANBUL - Hürriyet Daily News ![]()
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