FILM
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
15- Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- In Turkish
- 157 mins
The director of Uzak and Three Monkeys, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, has established himself as one of the new masters of cinema. This latest film offers an epic and rigorous tale of a night and day in a murder investigation, a beautifully photographed crime drama about police and prosecutors grimly locating a buried body through one long night in the Anatolian steppes. As the corpse is exhumed, many long-buried thoughts and fears are disinterred in the minds of the hard-bitten lawmen and the events of the investigation are infused with insights into the banality of everyday life and meditations on human existence.
Staff Review
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More Info
Cast: Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan, Taner Birsel
Country: Turkey, Bosnia Herzegovina
Year: 2011
Subtitles: Full English
Last shown
Last shown at Cornerhouse on Thu 5th Apr 2012
REVIEWS
A mesmerising police procedural.
Indiewire
An extraordinary tour de force.
Sight & Sound
A brilliant, masterly film.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is, in a word, great.
The New York Times
