A young teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after four years of mandatory service in a remote village, but is accused of inappropriate contact by two students. After losing hope, a colleague offers him new perspectives on life.Read More »
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Kuru Otlar Üstüne AKA About Dry Grasses (2023)
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da AKA Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan2011-2020ArthouseCrimeTurkeyA group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes. (IMDb)Read More »
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Ahlat Agaci AKA The Wild Pear Tree [Extras] (2018)
2011-2020ArthouseDocumentaryNuri Bilge CeylanTurkeyMaking of The Wild Pear Tree – Part 1Read More »
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Kasaba AKA The Small Town (1997)
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Depiction of a small Turkish town, as seen from the perspective of an 11 year old girl and her 7 year – old brother. The four part film unfolds along with the seasons. The first part is set at the school the girl attends, the social environment she must adapt to and its difficulties. She faces with her feeling of shame and some merciless clues of life. The second part is in spring. We see the girl with her brother and their journey to the maize field where their family are waiting for them.Read More » -
Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Iklimler aka Climates (2006)
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Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s cinema studies alienation through mainly minimalist means. Since Clouds of May (Mayis Sikintisi) and Distant (Uzak), which won the Grand Prix and a double prize for Best Actor at Cannes, the most conspicuous trait that makes him an auteur is his personal touch. Emotional distances filled in with long silences and uncertainties on faces in close-ups, supported by beautifully shot landscapes, are his trademarks. With a poetic, yet almost painfully honest approach, he passionately continues depicting the complexity of the human soul and its divine dilemmas. His talent is often comparable to great directors such as Bergman, Antonioni, Bresson, Tarkovsky and he clearly emphasizes the motto “less is more.”Read More » -
Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Ahlat Agaci AKA The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
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The Wild Pear Tree is a gentle, humane, beautifully made and magnificently acted movie from the Turkish film-maker and former Palme winner Nuri Bilge Ceylan: garrulous, humorous and lugubrious in his unmistakable and very engaging style. It’s an unhurried, elegiac address to the idea of childhood and your home town – and how returning to both has a bittersweet savour. As in his previous film, Winter Sleep, he draws on the spirit of Chekhov. But his style is all his own: not Chekhovian, but Ceylanian. There are scenes in which people placidly watch TV: largely histrionic soaps whose contrast to the film itself is a type of comedy the director playfully allows us to notice. In fact, The Wild Pear Tree is not unlike a telenovela of family life, taken at a very high-minded, andante pace.Read More » -
Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Ahlat Agaci Aka The Wild Pear Tree (2018)
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Sinan is passionate about literature and has always wanted to be a writer. Returning to the village where he was born, he pours his heart and soul into scraping together the money he needs to be published, but his father’s debts catch up with him… Read More » -
Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Üç maymun AKA Three Monkeys (2008)
2001-2010ArthouseDramaNuri Bilge CeylanTurkeySet in the areas of Istanbul rarely visited by foreigners, director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s strange detective story traces the journey of a family that is suddenly dislocated when minor shortcomings explode into exorbitant deceptions. Now their only hope of remaining together is to cover up the truth, but can ignoring the hardships and responsibilities that would be impossible to endure ever really invalidate the existence of the truth?Read More »
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Uzak AKA Distant (2002)
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How is it that the same movie can seem tedious on first viewing and absorbing on the second? Why doesn’t it grow even more tedious? In the case of “Distant,” which I first saw at Cannes in 2003, perhaps it helped that I knew what the story offered and what it did not offer, and was able to see it again without expecting what would not come.Read More »
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