Fresh
Ceylan's own growing reputation will, I hope, continue to grow. He uses the realistic film as an avenue to what lies around and beyond the realism.
Stanley Kauffmann, The New Republic
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Aren't most suicides intended to punish someone else, Mr. Prosecutor?
2011 · 2h 43m · NOT RATED
Crime, Drama
Directed by
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Overview
A group of men lead a search for a victim of a murder to whom a suspect named Kenan and his mentally challenged brother confessed. However, the search is proving more difficult than expected as Kenan is fuzzy as to the body's location. As the group continues looking, its members can't help but chat among themselves about everyday life, as the conversations turn more and more profound and existential.
Director and cast
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan Director
- Muhammet Uzuner as Doktor Cemal
- Yılmaz Erdoğan as Komiser Naci
- Taner Birsel as Savcı Nusret
- Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan as Şöför Arap Ali
- Fırat Tanış as Kenan
- Ercan Kesal as Muhtar
- Cansu Demirci as Mukhtar's Daughter Cemile
- Erol Eraslan as Murder Victim Yaşar
- Murat Kılıç as Police Officer İzzet
- Şafak Karali as Courthouse Clerk Abidin
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
92%
Tomatometer
Fresh
It runs 157 minutes, and I can't say you don't feel them. You do - but in the way you would, reading a very good book in an uncomfortable chair.
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
Fresh
A movie of such dark, smoldering intensity that it's easy to forget that half of it takes place in near darkness.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh
A police procedural as existential inquiry, set in a remote dreamscape of mystery and foreboding.
Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times
Fresh
Ceylan's visual style is less heightened, more down-to-earth than the more stylised 'Three Monkeys', but still some of the night-time scenes look like careful paintings, such is the precision of their lighting and composition.
Dave Calhoun, Time Out
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