Winter Sleep
Nuri Bilge Ceylan / TR, 2014 / 196 min.
Winner of the Golden Palm at Cannes, about the day-to-day life of a conceited former actor turned hotel owner. Ceylan has a keen eye for human weaknesses and explores moral issues that resonate far beyond the isolated Turkish setting of the film.
Middle-aged Aydin is a kind of local celebrity thanks to his acting past and columns in the local newspaper ('Voices of the Steppe'). He leads an idyllic life, is well-educated, rich, has extensive knowledge of the Turkish theatre, about which he one day wants to write a book. He runs a small hotel with his much younger wife. Complacent Aydin has effectively buried his emotions beneath a thick shell of intellectual superiority and academic cynicism.
Big questions subtly arise in the refined, protracted dialogues between the characters: questions about the decisions we take, the images we present to the world, and the degree of empathy we can feel for people in need. Following on from the sublime drama Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, here Ceylan creates a considerably more accessible character study, the running time of which (196 minutes) is no hindrance at all.
On May 13, writer Busra Erkara will give an introduction to Winter Sleep focusing on morally ambiguous protagonists in the work of Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
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Director
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Production year
2014
Country
TR
Original title
Kis uykusu
Length
196 min.
Language
Turkish
Subtitles
ENG or NLD
Format
DCP
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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