Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is the new film from the celebrated director of Climates and Distant . In the dead of night, a group of men - among them, a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect - drive through the Anatolian countryside, the serpentine roads and rolling hills lit only by the headlights of their cars. They are searching for a corpse, the victim of a brutal murder. The suspect, who claims he was drunk, can't remember where he buried the body. As night wears on, details about the murder emerge and the investigators' own secrets come to light. In the Anatolian steppes nothing is what it seems; and when the body is found, the real questions begin.
Reviews
~ Critics' Pick! "A plangent, visually stunning meditation on what it is to be humanĄ A metaphysical road movie about life, death and the limits of knowledge, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia has arrived just in time to cure the adult filmgoer blues. Nuri Bilge CeylanĄhas emerged as one of the consistently most exciting directors on the international scene." - Manohla Dargis, The New York Times
~ "Beautiful and haunting." - Amy Taubin, Artforum
~ "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is a cop movie and a road movie -- but mostly it's gorgeous cinema." - Andrew O'Hehir, Salon
Award
~ Winner of the Grand Prize at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival
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