Nuri Bilge Ceylan
3 titles · global slow cinema
Long nights on the Anatolian steppe and long arguments in warm rooms. In Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, a prosecutor, a police commissar and a doctor drive from hill to hill with a suspect looking for a buried body. Winter Sleep has Aydın, a former actor running a hotel in Cappadocia, argue through a snowbound winter with his young wife and his sister. About Dry Grasses follows an art teacher finishing his compulsory service in a remote village.
Signature
- Anatolian landscapes, photographed like paintings.
- Long dialogue scenes about morality and self-deception.
- Educated men who think well of themselves.
- The Palme d'Or for Winter Sleep.
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