KasabNuri Bilge Ceylan - The Early Works
1998
Kasaba (1998): Told from the perspective of two children, and in four parts which run parallel to seasons, KASABA describes relationships between members of a Turkish family in a small town. The first part is in a primary school where the family's 11 year old doughter is a pupil. It shows the social environment to which she has .. Read more
| Starring | Cihat Butin, Emin Ceylan, Fatma Ceylan, Havva Saglam |
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| Director | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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KasabNuri Bilge Ceylan - The Early Works
Kasaba (1998): Told from the perspective of two children, and in four parts which run parallel to seasons, KASABA describes relationships between members of a Turkish family in a small town. The first part is in a primary school where the family's 11 year old doughter is a pupil. It shows the social environment to which she has to adopt, 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, who is four years younger, and their journey to the corn field where their family are waiting for them. As they pass through the countryside, they encounter the mysteries of nature and wildlife... In the third part the brother and sister witness the complexities and darkness of the adult world... The fourth part takes place at home. This is a tranquil sequence moving between reality and dream.
Clouds Of May (1999): This May in the town seems to be warmer and gloomier than the previous years. Still, everyone seems to be happy despite their small worries and lives closed for any surprises. However, this happiness is a little disturbed by the arrival of Muzaffer who has made up his mind to shoot a film in this town where he had passed his childhood.
| Starring | Cihat Butin, Emin Ceylan, Fatma Ceylan, Havva Saglam, Emin Toprak, Muzaffer Ozdemir, Muhammad Zimbaoglu, Sadik Incesu |
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| Director | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| Studio | ARTIFICIAL EYE |
| Run time | DVD: 3 hrs 35 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Turkish |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 28 May 2007 Production year: 1998 |
| Format | DVD |
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"Clouds of May" tells the story of Muzaffer, who returns to his native town to make a movie. His father, Emin,...
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Kasaba
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's debut feature is a beautifully poetic evocation of small town life, with a few minor, forgivable flaws.
The opening half of the film, weaving children's perceptions of the rural countryside with a young man's experience of a fairground owes clear debts to Kiarostami, Bresson, and Tarkovsky, but is nonetheless stunningly shot and quietly affecting without ever lapsing into idealistic nostalgia.
The film then narrows somewhat into a family gathering around a fire, which I couldn't help but feel was a little overwritten in attempting to convey generational bitterness through overly comprehensive backstories. Still, this is leavened by some wonderful editing of dream sequences and silent, almost abstract close-ups of shadowed faces.
Since 'Kasaba', Ceylan has established himself as one of world cinema's finest contemporary directors (with the magnificent 'Uzak' and 'Climates/Iklimler' ), and this film is a sublime rural counterpart to the modern loneliness of the later films. -
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Kasaba
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's debut feature is a beautifully poetic evocation of small town life, with a few minor, forgivable flaws.
The opening half of the film, weaving children's perceptions of the rural countryside with a young man's experience of a fairground owes clear debts to Kiarostami, Bresson, and Tarkovsky, but is nonetheless stunningly shot and quietly affecting without ever lapsing into idealistic nostalgia.
The film then narrows somewhat into a family gathering around a fire, which I couldn't help but feel was a little overwritten in attempting to convey generational bitterness through overly comprehensive backstories. Still, this is leavened by some wonderful editing of dream sequences and silent, almost abstract close-ups of shadowed faces.
Since 'Kasaba', Ceylan has established himself as one of world cinema's finest contemporary directors (with the magnificent 'Uzak' and 'Climates/Iklimler' ), and this film is a sublime rural counterpart to the modern loneliness of the later films. -
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