Distant
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Actor: Â Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer Muzaffer Ã?zdemirDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); Turkish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Yorker
Movie Reviews of Distant
Movie Review: it can be cold world out there.
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this on the advice of another reviewer. I am glad i did. It may not be a feel good film but it does have unique qualities.
I enjoyed it, but it was rather bleak. The film did a great job of communicating that hopeless feeling in life rather well, as well as the disconnect that can come between friends. The scene where he finds the pocket-watch but does not tell Yusuf was perhaps my favorite part. The part where he wanted to, but could not bring himself to, approach a woman was also very good. Especially the part on the train where the woman's leg is close to his. This basically sums up what it is like to be a man. We can be, without a woman, very lonely creatures. God bless women. Amen.
Thanks for showing me this poignant film. I will re-visit it again for sure. I'm glad I picked it up.
Summary of Distant
The highly acclaimed, award-winning Turkish film Distant is a deeply compassionate and frequently amusing study of quiet desperation, prompting many critics to favorably compare writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's subtly hypnotic drama to the films of Ozu and Tarkovsky. Watch closely and you'll recognize someone you know, or even yourself, and the quietest moments are the most enjoyably revealing. Muzaffer Özdemir and Mehmet Emin Toprak shared Best Actor honors at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival for their perfectly nuanced performances as (respectively) divorced, 40-something photographer Mahmut and his distant relative Yusef, who arrives in Istanbul looking for work, and quickly wears out his welcome. Tensions mount, revealing solitude as the natural (if not preferred) state of these lonely, melancholy men. (In the context of this film, it's tragically ironic that Toprak was killed in an auto accident, at age 28, six months before his honors at Cannes.) With understated humor, Ceylan observes Mahmut and Yusef's chronic isolation, but he never passes judgment. Distant could've been made anywhere and it would yield the same visually seductive study of detachment. Tune into its wavelength and you'll find it unforgettable. --Jeff ShannonSimilar DVD Movies
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