This is the latest effort by Nuri Bilge Ceylan...Turkey's best know filmmaker. The title is puzzling since this film seems to be the exact opposite of anything ever done by Sergio Leone. It is very slow...a painstaking step-by-step account of a night-long search by police for a murder victim. We gradually get to know the players, the motive for the killing and the sense of the society where the events take place. But at three hours it takes much too long to get there. The film is best watched in segments.
That said the skill and professionalism on display is very high...great casting, cinematography, editing. World class work which should have been cut by an hour. Perhaps he's been watching too many Romanian films lately?
5
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