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MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring Muzaffer Özdemir, Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer Erkaya, Nazan Kirilmis, Feridun Koc, Fatma Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, and Ebru Yapici
A photographer who is haunted by the feeling that the gap between his ideals and his real life is growing finds himself obliged to put up in his apartment a young relative who has left behind his village looking for a job aboard a ship in Istanbul to go abroad.
| GENRE(S): | Drama | Foreign |
| WRITTEN BY: | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| DIRECTED BY: | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 22, 2005 Video: March 22, 2005 Theatrical: March 12, 2004 |
| RUNNING TIME: | 110 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: | Turkey |
| LANGUAGE(S): | Turkish (with English subtitles) |
Best Turkish Film, Best Director (Ceylan) and FIPRESCI Critics Prize, 2003 Istanbul International Film Festival; Grand Prize of the Jury and Best Actor (shared by Ozdemir and Toprak), 2003 Cannes Film Festival; FIPRESCI Film of the Year, 2003 San Sebastian International Film Festival; Special Jury Prize, 2003 Chicago International Film Festival
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The average user rating for this movie is 6.9 (out of 10) based on 12 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Dan C. gave it a6:
Beautiful and highly emotionally effective in parts, but the price to be paid is too high. Long stretches of no dialogue, no action, nothing but beautiful visuals or ponderously serious scenes of a man walking silently across a field.A film doesn't have to be so slow and take itself so seriously to be great or to say something important about life. At some point, the intentionally glacial pace becomes self-indulgent on the director's part. Yet somewhere within this flawed framework is a moving story with genuine power to captivate the viewer.
Hal B gave it a9:
Happened across this in the video store. Intrigued by the cover reviews, decided to check it out. Starts very slowly, but after a while it dawned on me that the director was painting a wonderful, beautiful, sad canvas... against the backdrop of the legendary city of Instanbul, hauntingly gorgeous in its wintry cloak. The photography and the performances are fantastic. A truly amazing film for those patient enough to be led through it.
Vince H. gave it a9:
Beautiful and haunting study of isolation and loneliness by a soon-to-be-master filmmaker. The way Ceylan shoots Emin Toprak's adventures around Istanbul (following women, sitting next to one on the train, etc.) is a beautiful and truly real moment of what loneliness feels like. Ceylan gets to the real core and heart of his characters as welll as feelings. In this sense, he is closest to directors like Tsai Ming-Liang and Hou Hsiao-hsien in style and technique than the much-compared Tarkvosky.
Ken L gave it a2:
Long, slow, dull and and self-indulgent. Ceylan breaks the cardinal rule of film-makers...he shows boredom by boring his audience. zzzzzz.
Andy R. gave it a4:
I don't get it. I really don't. How can anyone rate this as nearly perfect? Great shots, yes. But does that equal a good/perfect movie?
Brian C. gave it a9:
Hauntingly beautiful and anchingly painful. Cinema at its best.
Dan S. gave it a10:
Yep, the slowest, dullest movie in history for slow and dull people. Otherwise, if you've got an ouce of culture in you, and an interest in some of the bigger questions in life, then, well you might even enjoy this film a little. Maybe even get a little bit ecstatic about it. And I know that I am not alone in this. HA!
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