Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Contemporary Cinema
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2h 37m
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan | 157 mins | 2011
Against the majestic Turkish countryside, a roaming police investigation reveals more about the investigators and the tragicomedies of everyday life than about the foggy facts of the case. Ceylan’s gorgeously shot, masterfully paced story has a novelistic depth and feel for its setting as it follows a superbly acted gallery of crime professionals searching for the body of a murder victim in the sleepy hinterlands.
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