In the most iconic scene from William Wyler‘s “Roman Holiday,” Gregory Peck and Audrey Hepburn dare each other to slip a hand into La Bocca della Verità. In the opening of Turkish director Emre Yeksan‘s intriguing, enigmatic, gently absurdist “The Gulf,” Selim (the distractingly handsome Ulas Tuna Astepe) does the same, with a few notable differences.

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