The movie About Dry Grasses by Nuri Bilge Ceylan takes you into a village with snowy mountains where life moves slowly. It feels like you’re right there, watching the characters go about their lives. The story revolves around three main characters: Samet, Kenan, and Nuray. Samet is a middle-aged man who wants to leave the village for Istanbul because he doesn’t like the boring people or their traditional ways. But he’s stuck working as an elementary teacher there. Kenan, his colleague and roommate, seems like a simple man who is happy with his ordinary life. Both Samet and Kenan are attracted to Nuray, who’s an artist, an English teacher, and a leftist. The movie explores their relationships and how they unfold. Then, there’s a big incident at the school where Samet and Kenan are accused of doing something inappropriate with their students. What really happened?...
- 4/11/2024
- by Sutanuka Banerjee
- Film Fugitives
"A searing, mesmerizing, and unforgettably wintry mood piece." Janus Films + Sideshow have revealed the official US trailer for About Dry Grasses, the latest film from award-winning Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan. This premiered at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, where I wrote a rave review and it ended up winning the Best Actress award. A young teacher is sent to work in a snowy village in East Anatolia. After a long time waiting he loses all hope of escaping from this gloomy life. However, his colleague Nuray helps him to regain perspective. The latest deeply philosophical drama from Ceylan is a work of elegant, novelistic filmmaking, rigorously unpacking questions of belief versus action, the tangible versus the enigmatic, and who we wish to be versus how we live... A remarkable dinner table conversation between Samet and Nuray "ranks with Ceylan's greatest sequences, and Dizdar, who won the Best Actress prize at this year's Cannes Film Festival,...
- 11/28/2023
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Returning to Cannes with his first film in five years, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses earned a Best Actress prize for Merve Dizdar. The film follows the young art teacher Samet “who is finishing his fourth year of compulsory service in a remote village in Anatolia. After a turn of events he can hardly make sense of, he loses his hopes of escaping the grim life he seems to be stuck in. Will his encounter with Nuray, herself a teacher, help him overcome his angst?” After this month’s Oscar-qualifying run, Janus-Sideshow will begin unrolling About Dry Grasses on February 23, 2024, ahead of which there’s a U.S. trailer.
Rory O’Connor was impressed with the film at Cannes, writing, “It’s a hallmark of Ceylan’s artistry that those exchanges are as strongly staged as they are dramatic. Here as in another of the director’s Anatolia-set dramas,...
Rory O’Connor was impressed with the film at Cannes, writing, “It’s a hallmark of Ceylan’s artistry that those exchanges are as strongly staged as they are dramatic. Here as in another of the director’s Anatolia-set dramas,...
- 11/28/2023
- by Leonard Pearce
- The Film Stage
Turkey’s Best International Feature Oscar entry “About Dry Grasses” defrosts the blurred lines between teacher and student, colleague and mentor, in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s epically ambitioned, Cannes award-winning drama.
IndieWire debuts the trailer for the film that follows an abusive teacher (Deniz Celiloğlu) as he grapples with living in icy Anatolia, including favoring one pupil (Ece Bağcı), and seeking solace with a fellow teacher.
Samet (Celiloğlu) is a young art teacher now in his fourth year of compulsory service in a remote village in Anatolia. After a turn of events he can hardly make sense of, as is the case of many a Ceylan character facing a void, he loses his hopes of escaping the grim life he seems to be stuck in. Will his encounter with Nuray, also a teacher, help him overcome his angst? Musab Ekici also stars as Samet’s roommate.
The film is directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan,...
IndieWire debuts the trailer for the film that follows an abusive teacher (Deniz Celiloğlu) as he grapples with living in icy Anatolia, including favoring one pupil (Ece Bağcı), and seeking solace with a fellow teacher.
Samet (Celiloğlu) is a young art teacher now in his fourth year of compulsory service in a remote village in Anatolia. After a turn of events he can hardly make sense of, as is the case of many a Ceylan character facing a void, he loses his hopes of escaping the grim life he seems to be stuck in. Will his encounter with Nuray, also a teacher, help him overcome his angst? Musab Ekici also stars as Samet’s roommate.
The film is directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan,...
- 11/28/2023
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
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