There is more of that in the latest lengthy musing from the great Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Over the last decade, Ceylan – never a director of furious action – has closed down his cinema into a study of the conversational art. The project does, however, allow him the opportunity to wander about the village and generate more of those fascinating conversations. Whereas Winter Sleep, which won Ceylan the Palme d’Or at Cannes, played like a journey into the darker corners of a troubled brain, The Wild Pear Tree spends as much time being playful as it does cogitating on the great existential questions. Filmed in a gorgeous widescreen that is at home to the area’s natural beauty, The Wild Pear Tree is sometimes haphazard in its chatter, but it finds purpose in a final sequence that gathers together many of the film’s concerns.

Source: The Irish Times November 30, 2018 04:52 UTC