Friday, March 23, 2012

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia - Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2011)


          The filming is beautiful - the way it captures every character, making everyone seem important, making you feel for each of them, understand each of them. The dialogue is mostly about unimportant things - boring, everyday annoyances, gossip, whatever. The faces tell us about deeper things happening outside of useless talking. I love the subtleties of theme, purpose, story. Most people would find this boring, but it had me hooked within 5 minutes and made me want to keep watching to figure out the story and the characters. It's just really really good.

Watch it!

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