Uzak
Directed by:
Nuri Bilge CeylanScreenplay:
Nuri Bilge CeylanCinematography:
Nuri Bilge CeylanCast:
Muzaffer Özdemir, Mehmet Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer Erkaya, Nazan Kesal, Feridun Koç, Fatma Ceylan, Ebru Ceylan, Bahattin Serter, Arif Asçi, Nazli Aydin (more)Plots(1)
Translated into English as Distant, this bleak and poignant drama directed by Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan reflects on the loneliness and neuroses of modern urban life. Mahmut (Muzaffer Özdemir) is a middle-aged photographer living and working in Istanbul, whose tidy habits and cool demeanour are tried when his young cousin Yusuf (Emin Toprak, who was tragically killed in a car crash shortly after the film was completed) comes to stay with him while he looks for work. Yusuf is a good-natured but insensitive country boy from a poor village background, while Mahmut is a modern professional who is on the verge of a mid-life crisis since his ex-wife's announcement that she is leaving for Canada with her new husband. The two men form an awkward relationship, which is reflected in their inability to communicate with others around them. (Big World Pictures)
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There's nothing to add to this. Brilliant photogenic meditation on loneliness, hopelessness and closedness. A film imbued with the hopeless beauty of solitude to the last second. After watching it, I absolutely experienced a feeling of complete fulfillment. If this were to be the last film I ever saw, I would be fully satisfied.
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