Winter Sleep
aka Kis uykusu First screened in October 2014
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Cast: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Aybert Pekcan, Demet Akbag, Nejat Isler, Serhat Mustafa Kiliç, Emirhan Doruktutan, Tamer Levent, Nadir Saribacak, Ekrem Ilhan, Mehmet Ali Nuroglu, Rabia Ôzel, Fatma Deniz Yildiz. Screenplay: Ebru Ceylan and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (based on unspecified short stories by Anton Chekhov). Twitter Capsule:
Patient, tonally complex dialogues reveal character but avoid histrionics. Images more beautiful than interesting.
VOR:⑤
Most viewers seem to prefer Anatolia, but the Palme, the runtime, and Ceylan's accumulated reputation have made this a prodigious litmus as weighty intro or major crux to important auteur's career.
