Glacial Contemplations: The Meditative Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Cannes darling Nuri Bilge Ceylan has made his mark on world cinema through his sprawling cinematic works that dabble in heavy rumination: time, truth, injustice, relationships. Over his eight-feature oeuvre, the Turkish auteur has skilfully confronted his audience with the unhurried and the understated, writes Anthony Carew.

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Asian cinema, Turkey, The Small Town, Winter Sleep, The Wild Pear Tree, Climates, Once upon a Time in Anatolia, Three Monkeys, Distant, Clouds of May, socio-economic stratification, class, city, individualism, power relationships, bourgeois, intellectual, rural, working class, middle class, isolation.