Nuri Bilge Ceylan – Toronto Film Festival
It’s the Toronto Film Festival time (September 4 – 13, 2008) here in the city of Toronto and yes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s new film “Three Monkeys” (Üç maymun) is playing at the festival. Who is Nuri Bilge Ceylan? He is one of my favorite film directors and photographers from Istanbul. He won “Best Director” award at the Cannes Film Festival on May 28, 2008 for Three Monkeys.
I think I love his work because in both his films and photographs he sees his country Turkey, its landscapes and its humanity with such clarity. I love landscapes, I love clarity of vision, I love truth. His photographs are like paintings and his films, like the great novelists, see deeply into the human condition and it sufferings. Strip away borders, politics, class, religion, and gender and all of humanity is One. We are the same, with the same guilt, the same passions, the same weaknesses.
Of course, I’m going to try to get tickets to see his film “Three Monkeys” as soon as the ticket box office opens. The unfortunate thing is that there are only two showings of the film and if I miss getting tickets I’m going to have to wait a long time for “Three Monkeys” to actually make it into the cinemas. And sometimes the waiting is unbearable.
Logo courtesy of the Toronto Film Festival. Film poster courtesy of NBCfilm.com website.
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