I marvelled at this film when i first saw it. Such a surprising but delightful discovery – a Tarkovsky from Turkey!. I immediately watched it again. Then a few months later again. Of course i know and have watched more of the director’s – Nuri Bilge Ceylan – films now. This will be my 4th [...]
Watched this film twice; second time around not quite so impressed. Maybe because the pace is a little too studiously slow, the characters a little too earnestly construed, the photography a little too artfully deliberate. It’s still pretty good though. And Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “pretty good” is both pretty to look at, and good to [...]
I was loving this film for the first 30 or 40 minutes. Wintery small Turkish town. Mongrel dogs skulking a solitary road into nowhere. Wood pigeons cooing off behind. Kids sliding on the ice and laughing as local loony falls over. His lonely sad smile. Snow falling against classroom window. The kids under a feather [...]
