Pure Coolness

In his feature film Saratan director Ernest Abdyjaparov showed in a slightly humorous way the effect of socio-economic changes in the rural Kyrgyzstan on the life of a local policeman and the local rural customs. With Pure Coolness he returns to the countryside to point out the old Kyrgyzstani tradition of kidnapping a bride and how it all can unexpectedly end up.
Asem is a city beauty and she is in love with Murat. One day Murat comes to her parents’ flat and asks her to join him to visit his parents in Issyk Kul. He would like to introduce his love and wife-to-be to them. Upon their arrival in the village and his home, though, he realizes this gesture is against all the family rules. His family is not so happy with this too modern behaviour of their son and he himself forgets his own intentions when he meets a local beauty, a girl he used to be in love with. As complicated as love can get, the city girl Asem becomes a victim of the locals’ conspiracy. She is mistaken for someone else and is kidnapped to become a shepherd’s wife. At first she is totally unhappy, later on she starts to get used to the life in the mountains and even like it. A melodrama becomes the fairy-tale like story of two young lovers. (LC)