The Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos has become essential within the art cinema, his films are characterized by exploring obsessions such as alienation and disorientation produced by a gap between language and reality, the robotic repetition of social conventions , dystopia, and the use of catharsis as an escape route. There is no better way to …
Winter Sleep (2014)
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan “Not seeing a man for what he is, idolizing him like a god, and then being mad at him, because he’s not a god. Do you think that’s fair?” Inspired by three short stories by Anton Chekhov and some of Dostoevsky’s writings, Winter Sleep is the most ambitious film by the …
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011)
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Three cars are driving on a winded road through the rural Anatolian landscape, over hills and through plateaus, with their yellow headlights being the only illuminators of the unfolding night. Two of the men inside the car are convicts that have confessed to a murder and are accompanied by a group …