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Nuri Bilge Ceylan's DISTANT chronicles the numbing loneliness, longing, and isolation in the lives of two men who are consumed by their own problems. Istanbul photographer Mahmut (Muzaffer Ozdemir) reluctantly receives his relative Yusuf (Mehmet Emin Toprak), but the mingling of their lives does little to alleviate their .. Read more

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  Three Monkeys

  • 09 Feb 2009

  First, let’s be clear: Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan is a major talent, one of the best you’ll find on the art-house circuit. If you haven’t already done so, you should check out Distant (AKA Uzak, 2002) and Climates (2006). Now, let’s be frank: Three Monkeys is a significant shift towards the mainstream, and, I’m afraid, a mis-step. This is not a universal opinion, not by a long way. In fact Ceylan won the best director prize at Cannes last year. So what do Read more

  

  Climates

  • 05 Feb 2007

  No, not another global warming documentary - this is an art film from Turkey's Nuri Bilge Ceylan, who made Uzak (Distant). Before you switch off, it's worth knowing that Ceylan is one of the most admired filmmakers in the world right now, and a prodigious talent who not only wrote and directed, but also stars, produced and edited. (On Distant, he was also the director of photography.) More importantly, the film is a scaldingly honest account of marital break up - and certainly candid enough to Read more

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    Nuri Bilge Ceylan's DISTANT chronicles the numbing loneliness, longing, and isolation in the lives of two men who are consumed by their own problems. Istanbul photographer Mahmut (Muzaffer Ozdemir) reluctantly receives his relative Yusuf (Mehmet Emin Toprak), but the mingling of their lives does ...

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