16 October 2011

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

8.5/10
This must be the most Andrei Tarkovskian movie Andrei Tarkovsky never made...it's actually not very similar to any Tarkovsky movies on the surface but in terms of atmosphere and in conjuring up similar life questions, definitely. A review I read said this movie is the "night and day" of a police investigation and I think that works. I was only a little disappointed that the doctor was made plain the movie's centre in the second half of the film - he was the entire time for me, but I liked it better when he was in the background somewhat. I guess it was a necessity though. There's a heck of a lot to mull over here though.

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