The Wild Pear Tree
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3h 8m
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 188 mins | 2018
An aspiring writer comes back to the village where he was born only to find that he can’t escape the debts owed by his father. Quintessentially Chekhovian, the beautifully shot story captures the ache and the ironies of the young man’s predicament, while also feeling a little like the filmmaker’s personal contemplation of youthful ambition unfulfilled.
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