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Uzak
(Distant) (2002) – N. B. Ceylan
A meditation of sorts on the distances
that people allow to come between them – or that they put there on
purpose. Mahmut is a successful
commercial photographer in Istanbul who is visited by his “country cousin” recently
out-of-work due to a factory closing in their hometown. Age and class differences now separate them
but Mahmut is also in a funk due to his recent divorce from his wife (who still
contacts him despite being remarried and about to move to Canada). The distance between men and women (although
the latter are far and few between) might also be a subtheme here. Yusuf, the
cousin, is also unable to find work – his dreams and goals are similarly
distant. Ceylan shoots the wintry landscapes and harbor with a sharp eye for stillness
and the various hues of grey and blue.
His work wins awards though this is a quiet not grandstanding film.
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