Superstar DJ Ahmet…
Fat Boy Slim, Judge Jules, Pete Tong all massive names on the dance floor and having made fortunes it’s little wonder that those divas of the decks are seen as an aspirational life style by young people. Indeed our own Editor fancied himself as a wizard of the decks spinning the platters that matter until he realized that the moniker we had given him was not as cool as he thought it was. And so his days as DJ Wakner were no more. DJ Ahmet on the other hand is far different. The title refers to that of a teenage boy Ahmet (a tremendous Arif Jakup) living in a remote North Macedonian village with his widowed father and younger brother Naim (Agush Agushev) who has not spoken since their mother died.
So who is DJ Ahmet?
With both having been taken out of school to help their father’s tiny rural business herding a small flock of sheep its little wonder that Ahmet searches for an escape. He finds it when searching for a lost sheep and stumbles across a secret rave in middle of nowhere. It’s a moment where the scales fall from his eyes and for those of us old enough to remember the days before the 1994 Criminal Justice Act put an end to the modern day outdoor raves – in a declining Tory era where the freeing sensation of dancing like mad with fellow ravers, hitting that bassline hell dance til you smell was a much needed escape
It’s there that Ahmet spots his neighbour Aya (Dora Akan Zlatanova) who is also seeking temporary escape form her imminent arranged marriage. He is immediately besotted and a friendship develops centred on their love of dance music that clashes with the culture within which they are being raised.
Should you rave about this film?
There’s a lot to like – the two leads are engaging and likeable as are the supporting child actors and writer director Georgi M Unkovski handles it sublimely with several comic moments – a mosque call to prayers over a tannoy accidently blaring out the Microsoft Windows sting. Topped and tailed by a group of women sat under a tree in a bare landscape acting like an unofficial Greek chorus the film doesn’t end quite as might be expected with a familiar rebellious youth genre story trope where the kids push back against cultural traditions. Ultimately it’s a reminder of the liberating embrace of music to escape and lose yourself in and as an often funny coming of age film DJ Ahmet is a an absolute joyous gem of a film.
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