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  • Janus Films
  • 3 h 17 m
  • Janus Films
  • 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

  • Janus Films
  • 3 h 17 m
  • Janus Films
  • 3 h 17 m
About Dry Grasses
Metascore Universal acclaim Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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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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Universal acclaim Based on 10 Critic Reviews
82
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
82
90% Positive
9 Reviews
10% Mixed
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0% Negative
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100
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
90
May 21, 2023
It’s a searing, mesmerizing and unforgettably wintry mood piece and character study.
By Tomris Laffly FULL REVIEW
90
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
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
83
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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80
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
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 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
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Duration 3 h 17 m
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Website https://filmsozluk.com/kuru-otlar-ustune-filmi-fragman-izle-konusu-oyuncular/
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Jerusalem Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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