'The Cut': Venice Review — hollywoodreporter.com

VENICE -- A mute blacksmith father goes on a trip across the continents in search of his daughters in The Cut, an ambitious but only intermittently stirring historical epic from Turkish-German director Fatih Akin. It’s pretty remarkable that a director of Turkish origins has decided to tell a story that starts in the 1915 Ottoman Empire and in which an Armenian plays the lead, since that is the year the oft-denied genocide of the Armenians took place. But the narrative continues through 1923, pushing the fate of a people into the background for a rather generic survival-and-search story.

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