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  • Janus Films
  • 3 h 17 m
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  • 3 h 17 m
About Dry Grasses

Summary Samet, a young art teacher, is finishing his fourth year of compulsory service in a remote village in Anatolia. After a turn of events he can hardly make sense of, he loses his hopes of escaping the grim life he seems to be stuck in. Will his encounter with Nuray, herself a teacher, help him overcome his angst?

Directed By: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Written By: Akin Aksu, Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan

In Theaters Now
  • 2024
  • Not Rated
  • Janus Films
  • 3 h 17 m
  • 2024
  • Not Rated
  • Janus Films
  • 3 h 17 m

About Dry Grasses

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 12 User Ratings
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Summary Samet, a young art teacher, is finishing his fourth year of compulsory service in a remote village in Anatolia. After a turn of events he can hardly make sense of, he loses his hopes of escaping the grim life he seems to be stuck in. Will his encounter with Nuray, herself a teacher, help him overcome his angst?

Directed By: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Written By: Akin Aksu, Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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91% Positive
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9% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 22 Critic Reviews
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91% Positive
20 Reviews
9% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Feb 29, 2024
It’s beautiful work, and not just because it’s beautiful.
By Michael Phillips FULL REVIEW
100
Feb 22, 2024
The effortlessly orchestrated dialogue scenes are riveting, but what’s remarkable is that, no matter how talkative Samet and his cohorts are, they often don’t say what they mean. The characters argue politics, worldviews or how to handle the disturbing accusations leveled against Samet and Kenan at school, but their rhetorical jousting masks unspoken resentments and disappointments.
By Tim Grierson FULL REVIEW
90
Feb 22, 2024
In About Dry Grasses, Ceylan is asking a vital question of himself as well as the audience: What does it mean to be engaged in the world? And if you choose to back away and watch, rather than become involved, is it self-protection, superiority or just cowardice?
By Alissa Wilkinson FULL REVIEW
88
Mar 1, 2024
There’s a profound, unresolvable melancholy to “About Dry Grasses” that’s hard to shake.
By Jake Coyle FULL REVIEW
83
May 30, 2023
One of the greatest mysteries behind Ceylan’s cinema is how his talk-heavy sprawls manage to escape the aloofness of the chamber dramas they so often unspool as. Grasses is another scintillating example of that paradox, a film in which chats do not unfurl so much as detonate.
By Leonardo Goi FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 29, 2024
It feels unbalanced, a collection of often-compelling sequences stitched together in a way that is unpersuasive or sometimes simply puzzling.
By Liam Lacey FULL REVIEW
50
May 21, 2023
The movie goes downhill into predictable territory, finally landing in a soggy quagmire of talkiness and would-be profundity expressed in voiceover at the end. But at least the visuals are nice, with Ceylan’s signature use of snow-capped landscape and wide-angled lensing to the fore.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW

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Production Company NBC Film, Memento Films Production, Komplizen Film, Second Land, Film i Väst, Arte France Cinéma, Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), Turkish Radio & Television (TRT), Playtime, ARTE, 12 Punto (TRT), Doha Film Institute, Eurimages, T.C. Kültür Ve Turizm Bakanligi, Sinema Genel Müdürlügü, L'Aide aux Cinémas du Monde, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), Institut Français, La Région Île-de-France, MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Pegasus Hava Yollari, MojoFX
Release Date Feb 23, 2024
Duration 3 h 17 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://biletinial.com/sinema/kuru-otlar-ustune
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Awards

Turkish Film Critics Association (SIYAD) Awards
• 9 Wins & 11 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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