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Nuri Bilge Ceylan

About Dry Grasses

Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan Composer Philip Timofeyev Cast Deniz Celiloglu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici
197' - 2023 - Drama - Dialogue: Turkish
In a landscape as whimsical as its people, Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan puts a spiritually and morally empty teacher - who would love to leave Anatolia behind him rather sooner than later - front and centre. Ceylan's work continues to fascinate with nihilistic men passing the blame for their problems onto their surroundings.
From the very first image of a snowy landscape near a village in eastern Anatolia, it's clear that Turkish film auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep, The Wild Pear Tree) is once again presenting his equally talkative and visually overwhelming cinema against the backdrop of an inhospitable region. Samet is a teacher who gets too close with Sezim, one of his students, and gets into trouble for it. He is a man without ideals, a misanthrope whose flame has been extinguished before it even ignited. Can Nuray, a woman who lost a leg in a terrorist attack, save his soul? Ceylan, as so often, offers a patient masterclass in dissecting men who erect walls in front of them and wade into self-pity. With explosive tête-à-têtes and a literary style somewhere between Chekhov and Nabokov, Ceylan manages to paint an emotionally and intellectually rich portrait of the male ego.
"Nuri Bilge Ceylan delivers a pastoral masterpiece about Turkey's contemporary complexities. It's a searing, mesmerizing and unforgettably wintry mood piece and a stunning character study of an apathetic man in a country both hopeful and weary." - The Wrap

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Credits

Directors

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Composers

Philip Timofeyev

Cast

Deniz Celiloglu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici

Scenario

Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Akin Aksu, Ebru Ceylan

Director of Photography

Cevahir Sahin, Kürsat Üresin

Editors

Oguz Atabas, Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Producers

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Production studios

NBC Film, Memento Production, Komplizen Film

Distributor

September Film Distribution

More info

Dialogue

Turkish

Countries of production

Turkey, Germany, France, Sweden

Year

2023

Filmography

Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cocoon (short, 1995), The Small Town (1997), Clouds of May (1999), Distant (2002), Climates (2006), Three Monkeys (2008), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), Winter Sleep (2014), A Long Cold Winter (2016), The Wild Pear Tree (2018), Making of the Wild Pear Tree (2019), About Dry Grasses (2023)