The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)

[Grouchy]

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[Grouchy]

Definitively not my type of film but there's something quite gifted about the way Nuri extends scenes far beyod their usual running time, making a simple conflict evolve on screen for the duration. I was surprised by some subplots which seemed to come and go such as the neighbour gil whom the protagonist obviously fancied in his youth - it seemed to me that she was more an annotation on a social problem of Turkey than an actual character, but then again I'm sure I didn't grasp the entirety of the social commentary.