Review: Turkish masterpiece About Dry Grasses is the best kind of slow-burn drama, searing and severe
Structured like a quietly grand novel, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s film unfolds with Chekhovian grace and a cutting understanding of character
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Structured like a quietly grand novel, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s film unfolds with Chekhovian grace and a cutting understanding of character
With no new bust-out limited releases, repertory continues to do its part for the specialty box office, the latest a 4k restoration of Nostalghia. Kino Lorber said the Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1983 film, which opened Wednesday, will gross an estimated $22.87k at Film Forum in NYC for the five days. It’s currently the top performer at the …
Andrei Tarkovsky's ‘Nostalghia’ 4K Restoration, 'Io Capitano', 'Stopmotion', 'Drugstore June', 'About Dry Grasses' at the indie film box office.
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 deceitfulness, Sa