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Winter Sleep

Kis Uykusu (Sommeil d'hiver)

2014

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag, Mehmet Ali Nuroglu ...

7.3

4,474

Drama Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities...

	Author	Review
United States	Deborah Young The Hollywood Reporter	"The esoteric world of masterful Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan proves as vibrant and uneasy as ever in 'Winter Sleep' (...) The final half-hour is a joy to watch"	POS
United States	Justin Chang Variety	"Nuri Bilge Ceylan is at the peak of his powers (...) a richly engrossing and ravishingly beautiful magnum opus that surely qualifies as the least boring 196-minute movie ever made"	POS
United Kingdom	Xan Brooks The Guardian	"In fits and starts, this is a stunning picture. At its best, Winter Sleep shows Ceylan to be as psychologically rigorous, in his way, as Ingmar Bergman before him (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"A beautiful, bold, intently serious film about a failing marriage in a mountaintop hotel on the Anatolian steppe: think 'The Shining' as retold by Chekhov, without the axe and spooks. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United Kingdom	Dave Calhoun Time Out	"Nuri Bilge Ceylan continues to dig with acute intelligence into the dark corners of everyday human behaviour. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS

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