Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Istanbul – Best Director at Cannes
Bravo! To Istanbul filmmaker and photographer, Nuri Bilge Ceylan who has just won the Best Director award at the Cannes film festival for his newest film “Three Monkeys”. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s previous films, “Uzak” (Distant) and “Iklimler” (Climates) – both movies which I have seen and loved is a major contributor to the rebirth of Turkish cinema.
His films examine human relationships, connection, separation and sometimes the impossibility or futility of these relationships. His photographs are like paintings of vast landscapes and sometimes there are people who stand within these infinite landscapes and stare back at the camera almost defiantly. Mr. Ceylan’s vision and photographs reveal a “eye” that only great artists have.
I am hoping that “Three Monkeys” makes it to the Toronto Film Festival September 4 – 13, 2008. I will be buying a ticket for “Three Monkeys” if it comes to my city’s Festival.
Please Mr. Ceylan, come to my country or exhibit your photographic work in my country.
I just wanted to write a short post here about his award at the Cannes film festival. Something’s brewing in Istanbul: excellent filmmaking…
Photo from Hurriyet.
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