Description
Film maker Nuri Bilge Ceylan''s meditative, visually stunning contributions to the ''New Turkish Cinema'' have marked him out as a pioneer of his medium. Reaping success from his prize-winning, breakout film Uzak (2002), and from later festival favourites Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) and Winter Sleep (2014), he has quickly established himself as an original and provocative writer, director and producer of 21st century cinema. In an age where Turkey''s modernisation has created societal tensions and departures from past tradition, Ceylan''s films present a cinema of dislocation and a vision of ''nostalgia'' understood as homesickness: sick of being away from home; sick of being at home. This book offers an overdue study of Ceylan''s work and a critical examination of the principle themes therein. In particular, chapters focus on time and space, melancholy and loneliness, absence, rural and urban experience, and notions of paradox, as explored through films which are often slow
