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Turkish screenwriter Ebru Ceylan, alongside Lily Gladstone, joins Cannes Film Festival jury led by Greta Gerwig, tasked with selecting the Palme d'Or...

About Dry Grasses (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2023, 197 min, Turkey, Turkish with English subtitles, DCP)

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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.