Clouds of May (1999)
(Mayis Sikintisi)
Country: TUR
Technical: col 130m
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast: Emin Ceylan, Muzaffer Özdemir, Fatma Ceylan, Mehmet Emin Toprak
Synopsis:
A son returns to his rural birthplace from Istanbul to make a film, using his own family as stand-ins in order to save money. His father is more concerned about what the state surveyors are going to do about his precious tree lined meadow, and his young nephew hopes to secure a reward for keeping an egg in his pocket without breaking it.
Review:
Overlapping slightly with his earlier feature, Kasaba, and building on the characters and themes in it, this somewhat more wry and less elegiac quasi-documentary evokes Chekhov, not least The Cherry Orchard, though one also thinks of Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us. The lure of the city is shown as inevitable, even if its promise is revealed to be a chimaera, but Ceylan's camera dwells on the natural beauty and permanence of the landscape. This tension is explored in his next film, Uzak.
(Mayis Sikintisi)
Country: TUR
Technical: col 130m
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast: Emin Ceylan, Muzaffer Özdemir, Fatma Ceylan, Mehmet Emin Toprak
Synopsis:
A son returns to his rural birthplace from Istanbul to make a film, using his own family as stand-ins in order to save money. His father is more concerned about what the state surveyors are going to do about his precious tree lined meadow, and his young nephew hopes to secure a reward for keeping an egg in his pocket without breaking it.
Review:
Overlapping slightly with his earlier feature, Kasaba, and building on the characters and themes in it, this somewhat more wry and less elegiac quasi-documentary evokes Chekhov, not least The Cherry Orchard, though one also thinks of Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us. The lure of the city is shown as inevitable, even if its promise is revealed to be a chimaera, but Ceylan's camera dwells on the natural beauty and permanence of the landscape. This tension is explored in his next film, Uzak.
(Mayis Sikintisi)
Country: TUR
Technical: col 130m
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast: Emin Ceylan, Muzaffer Özdemir, Fatma Ceylan, Mehmet Emin Toprak
Synopsis:
A son returns to his rural birthplace from Istanbul to make a film, using his own family as stand-ins in order to save money. His father is more concerned about what the state surveyors are going to do about his precious tree lined meadow, and his young nephew hopes to secure a reward for keeping an egg in his pocket without breaking it.
Review:
Overlapping slightly with his earlier feature, Kasaba, and building on the characters and themes in it, this somewhat more wry and less elegiac quasi-documentary evokes Chekhov, not least The Cherry Orchard, though one also thinks of Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us. The lure of the city is shown as inevitable, even if its promise is revealed to be a chimaera, but Ceylan's camera dwells on the natural beauty and permanence of the landscape. This tension is explored in his next film, Uzak.