‘Ecotopia’ unites villagers against eco-villagers

In ‘Entelköy Efeköy’e Karşı’, residents of an Aegean village come face to face with eco-villagers, tired intellectuals from the city. Yüksel Aksu’s anticipated follow-up to ‘Dondurmam Gaymak’ (Ice Cream I Scream) is fun and provides laughs throughout even if some of the characters are caricatures. 

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.

The Ecotopia in the novel was an inspiration to counterculture and the green movement in 1970s America. 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).
 
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