Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da (2011)
Genre: Drama / Crime
Duration: 157 minuten
Alternative title: Once upon a Time in Anatolia
Country:
Turkey / Bosnia and Herzegovina
Directed by: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Stars: Muhammet Uzuner, Yilmaz Erdogan and Taner Birsel
IMDb score:
7,8 (53.558)
Releasedate: 23 September 2011
Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da plot
The story of a doctor and a prosecutor who are forced to make a night trip through the steppe in Anatolia. Their journey through the steppe is similar to life in a small village: there is the feeling that behind every hill something different, something unknown will emerge, while the landscape behind that hill remains equally monotonous...
Actors and actresses
Doktor Cemal
Komiser Naci
Savcı Nusret
Şoför Arap Ali
Kenan
Muhtar
Murder Victim Yaşar
Suspect Ramazan
Police Officer İzzet
Courthouse Clerk Abidin
Reviews & comments
eRCee
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- 13449 messages
- 1981 votes
Once upon a time in Anatolia belongs to the genre of inertia cinema and, as can be expected, the cinematography is more than good. It is mainly the images in the twilight with lighting from headlights, a fire or an oil burner that make a visual impression. In addition, the film contains at least one top scene, namely the one in which tea is served. Magic.
And yet something is missing.
Of course Once upon a time in Anatolia provides a picture of present-day Turkey, it contains implicit criticism of the functioning of the rulers, and its male-female relations are a theme. But it all remains fairly mundane and contains too few ideas. Compare it to a book like Snow by Orhan Pamuk, there is so much more in it; better developed theme, tension, better story setting and development, tragedy, more relationship between form and content, grandeur.
Once upon a time in Anatolia is a nice movie to see in the cinema, but that's about it. And I often have that feeling with the filmmakers in the contemplative corner; they are too easily satisfied as long as nice pictures are taken. But a line along which the film is built, whether it is narrative or thematic, is too much omitted. Unfortunately. It is precisely this combination that produces masterpieces such as until now only Tarkovsky was able to create them.
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womanizer
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- 34 messages
- 25 votes
Unfortunately I was able to watch the film this week (disgraceful), and this one is definitely in my top 10 (too bad for Shaun of the Dead 
). Slightly less than Uzak but WOW. Beautiful!!! Rarely seen such a realistic pure film Great acting, beautiful visuals Nuri Bilge Ceylan shows once again that he is one of the greatest directors and writers of all time.
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Movsin
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- 8286 messages
- 8442 votes
Already from the first images you feel a strong and unusual film.
A satire on the clumsiness of a research team or by extension to a larger society or is it something more?
Human sides are almost playfully reviewed, subtle humor and deep sadness side by side.
Wonderful scenes such as the trivial conversations between the police officers in the car in the presence of the perpetrator who, strangely enough, silently stands out as a human being, or the bureaucratic, on the one hand stubborn, on the other aloof approach to the discovery of the corpse, or the one with the mayor casually trying to get some favors....
Ceylan also does not use music to accentuate emotions, as witness the beautiful final scene with the woman who descends the slope with a suit of clothes from her murdered husband with her son, full of hatred towards the murderer, but still "child" permanently by going to pick up that ball and toss it back to the playground full of conviction. Such is a child.
Strong acting and brilliant cinematography with the colorful images of the rolling landscape ... containing three tiny cars whose occupants will help to enjoy two and a half hours of filming pleasure.
In my opinion, the best Cylan movie I've seen.
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