Clouds of May
Nuri Bilge Ceylan / TR, 1999 / 121 min.
Tragicomic, beautiful (self-)portrait of a director who returns to the village of his birth in the countryside to make a film with lead roles for his parents and cousins – culminating in a fiasco.
The everyday happiness of a warm month of May in the Anatolian countryside is disrupted by the arrival of director Muzaffer, who wants to make a film with his family in the place where he spent his youth. In the meantime, father Emin (who is also director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s father) is determined to save the small wood on his property from being seized by the Ministry of Agriculture.
Clouds of May is a obfuscated self-portrait that deals with lost innocence, the passing of time and nature's omnipotence. the astounding footage of the Turkish countryside betrays Ceylan’s background as a photographer.
Screenings on 35mm (from the Eye collection) and DCP.
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Details
Director
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Production year
1999
Country
TR
Original title
Mayis sikintisi
Length
121 min.
Language
Turkish
Subtitles
ENG or NLD
Format
DCP, 35mm
Part of
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Eye Filmmuseum presents the first Dutch exhibition devoted to the work of acclaimed Turkish filmmaker and photographer Nuri Bilge Ceylan. For this occasion, the museum is bringing together his prize-winning films and lesser-known landscape photographs for the very first time. That combination reveals not only Ceylan’s masterly photographic eye and sense of composition, but also the deeply compassionate way he explores universal themes from a Turkish perspective.
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