About Dry Grasses

3 h 17 m

3 h 17 m

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?

Drama

Directed By: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

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

3 h 17 m

3 h 17 m

About Dry Grasses

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Drama

Directed By: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

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

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Universal Acclaim Based on 10 Critic Reviews

90% Positive
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10% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Universal Acclaim Based on 10 Critic Reviews

90% Positive
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10% Mixed
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CineVue

May 21, 2023

About Dry Grasses is part-Chekovian comedy of yearning and male ego, and part-tragedy of a country which stymies the growth of its own citizens.

By John Bleasdale FULL REVIEW

TheWrap

May 21, 2023

It’s a searing, mesmerizing and unforgettably wintry mood piece and character study.

By Tomris Laffly FULL REVIEW

Screen Daily

May 21, 2023

About Dry Grasses is a ravishingly cinematic piece of work that seems designed to spark animated, if not acrimonious, debate.

By Lee Marshall FULL REVIEW

The Film Stage

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

The Playlist

May 21, 2023

While the Turkish director seems ever-fascinated with gloomy, nihilistic anti-heroes, he does vest more hope in human relationships than usual.

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The Guardian

May 21, 2023

This film, so apparently forbidding and opaque the way many Ceylan films initially are, has in fact something engrossing in its garrulous and wide-ranging quality: a literary quality in fact.

By Peter Bradshaw FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

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 France, 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 Film Fund, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Pegasus Hava Yollari, MojoFX

Duration 3 h 17 m

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Drama

Website https://biletinial.com/sinema/kuru-otlar-ustune

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Awards

Cannes Film Festival

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

Chicago International Film Festival

• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

International Cinematographers' Film Festival Manaki Brothers

• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

Top Cast

Deniz Celiloglu

Samet

Merve Dizdar

Nuray

Musab Ekici

Kenan

Ece Bagci

Sevim

Erdem Senocak

Tolga

Yüksel Aksu

Veteriner Vahit

Münir Can Cindoruk

Feyyaz

Onur Berk Arslanoglu

Bekir

Yildirim Gücük

Milli Egitim Müdürü

Cengiz Bozkurt

Nail

Emrah Özdemir

Sergeant

Elif Ürse

Assistant Principal Saime

Elit Andaç Çam

Firdevs

Nalan Kuruçim

Kevser

Ferhat Akgün

Guidance Counselor Atakan

Eylem Canpolat

Halime

Seçkin Aydin

Soldier Erdi

Turan Selçuk Yerlikaya

Petty Officer

Abti Karatas

Ranger

Vahit Yildirim

Ranger with the Sleigh

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