Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011). Photofest.
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
(Bir Zamanlar Anadolu’da, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Turkey/Bosnia and Herzegovina 2011, 157 min., 35mm, Turkish w/subtitles)
Salam. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s work in this current decade has elevated his standing as a giant of world cinema. His purposeful camera composes paintings of light, allowing the audience’s eye to linger and pick up every detail, enhancing the uneasiness of everyday life. In this film, a doctor, a prosecutor, a commissioner, and a band of policemen escort a murder suspect through rural Anatolia in search of a corpse. Traveling under cover of night, the men slowly unravel the mystery behind the murder even as their own secrets and mysteries come to the surface. Composed in rich, painterly images—sometimes lit only by the headlight of a car—the film won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.
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