Winter Sleep (2014)

Original title

Kış Uykusu

Directed by

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Genre

drama film

Country

Germany, France, Turkey

Runtime

3h 16m

Rated

6

Rating

7.5 of 10 from 627 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A wealthy former actor runs a hotel in a remote Anatolian region. He has tense confrontations with his much younger wife and a local tenant over money and pride.

slow-burnintrospectivebleakcontemplativetenseemotionally coldatmosphericcerebral

What happens

Winter Sleep (Turkish: Kış Uykusu [ˈkɯʃ ujkuˈsu]) is a 2014 Turkish drama film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, adapted from the novella "The Wife" by Anton Chekhov and one subplot of The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The story is set in Anatolia and examines the significant divide between the rich and the poor as well as the powerful and the powerless in Turkey. It stars Haluk Bilginer, Demet Akbağ and Melisa Sözen. Ceylan had long wished to adapt "The Wife", and shot it in Cappadocia. At the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, the film won the Palme d'Or and the FIPRESCI Prize. The film was selected as the Turkish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 87th Academy Awards, but was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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