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Set in a small Eastern Anatolian village, the newest feature from Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan captures the existential burdens of a group of school teachers completing their compulsory civil service in one of the country’s most isolated regions. Ceylan, director of the acclaimed “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” and Palme d’Or-winning “Winter Sleep,”...

The masterful “About Dry Grasses” has a 197-minute running time, but earns every bit of it with its intricate, rewarding character study of a selfish man searching for connection.

Toronto International Film Festival About Dry Grasses begins with the crackling of falling snow and concludes with the crunch of desiccated grass being crushed underfoot. In both cases, the landscape in Turkey’s rural Eastern Anatolia is harsh to the point of severity, and so too is the heart of Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu), a middle-school teacher whose discontent manifests itself via his affiliation with two women.An off-putting thirtysomething whose egotism is matched only by his dece...

Justin Chang reviews “About Dry Grasses,” a new drama by the eminent Turkish director, which uses an accusation at a school in rural Anatolia to dissect provincial mores.

The acclaimed director Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns with a complex study of self-delusion and romantic parrying, set in a snowy small town of secrets.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan returns to Anatolia for a feminist epic, starring a stupid man and the women enrapturing him. Our About Dry Grasses review:

About Dry Grasses: Will the Sixth Time Be the International Oscar Charm for Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan?

Nuri Bilge Ceylan writes and directs Cannes award-winning "About Dry Grasses," a teacher-student drama that is the official Oscar entry for Turkey.