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  • About Dry Grasses (2023)
    Review preview for About Dry Grasses

    It’s the multiple layers of mystery – which have less to do with actual events than with what different characters are thinking – which make the film compelling.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A young teacher hopes to be appointed to Istanbul after mandatory duty at a small village. After long time waiting he loses all hope of escaping from this gloomy life. His colleague helps him to regain his perspective.
  • Climates (2006)
    Review preview for Climates

    The film is like a shout, dying in the throat, with the sound turned down, so that everything is expressed through the eyes and nothing is resolved, nor talked through, like it would be in a Bergman movie.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Study of an emotional crisis within a fractured relationship in Istanbul.
  • Once Upon A Time In Anatolia (2011)
    Review preview for Once Upon A Time In Anatolia

    Once Upon A Time In Anatolia produces the most exciting boredom.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
    A group of men set out to investigate murder in the steppe.
  • Winter Sleep (2014)
    Review preview for Winter Sleep

    Ceylan explores such themes as moral responsibility, class and altruism with rigour.

    Richard Mowe · 3.5 out of 5
    A hotel owner gradually has his delusions stripped away from him.

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