For a long time I was going to see the film “Winter hibernation” / Kis Uykusu by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, but scared off its duration, still 3 hours and 16 minutes. But the time has come (unfortunately) when I can only lie down, preferably moving less, and yesterday I finally watched it over the evening. I must say, I liked
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For a long time I was going to see the film “Winter hibernation” / Kis Uykusu by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, but scared off its duration, still 3 hours and 16 minutes. But the time has come (unfortunately) when I can only lie down, preferably moving less, and yesterday I finally watched it over the evening. I must say, I liked the movie. The film was based on Chekhov’s short story “The Wife”, but, according to Ceylan, he borrowed some motifs from Dostoevsky, as well as from Shakespeare and Voltaire. As I often do, I decided to refresh the memory of Chekhov’s story and made sure that in some places the film is close to him, there are even some almost identical dialogues, but still the director contributed a lot of his own. Somewhere in the mountainous province lives a former actor Aydin (Haluq Bilginer), who left his field after the death of his father, from whom he inherited some property, including a hotel called Othello, he is quite well provided, his assistant Hidayet (Iberk Pekcan) is managing, and he writes articles in local newspapers and is going to write a book about the history of Turkish theater. Together with him lives his divorced sister Nekla (Demet Akbag) and wife Nichal (Melissa Cezin). The relationship with his wife is now even, but not close, they live even in different parts of the house. And so throughout this absolutely conversational film, we're watching these people, as well as others around them, come out. And we see a complete misunderstanding on all sides, everyone considers himself right and wrong of others, this, of course, is common to people, but here it is shown quite clearly. It is worth looking at and listening to these different points of view and, as is often the case, mutual resentments and accusations. The film at one time received quite high praise, which was reflected in the fact that at the festival in Cannes in 2014 he received the Golden Palm Branch and the FIPRESCI prize. The film is good and visually, wonderful actors, especially the lead actor Haluk Bilginer, and I also liked the very restrained musical accompaniment, the main melodies - F. Schubert's sonata for piano N20 C major, as well as the melodies of L. Michelini.
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