Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan “You know, sometimes things I see in you, me and even Grandad remind me of a wild pear tree. I don’t know. We’re all misfits, solitary, misshapen.“ Nuri Bilge Ceylan is at the peak of his powers and on an impressive roll: since the Turkish auteur made his first feature film …
(This is an early interview from 1997 that Güldal Kızıldemir did for the Turkish newspaper Radikal. Translation by Saliha Enzenauer) “States like meaninglessness and melancholy can only be melted in a transcendental value. Art is one of these values.” Nuri Bilge Ceylan You received two big awards so far for your first feature film, The …
