There's a scene in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Distant where the photographer (at least partially autobiographical) goes out to Anatolia to photograph 'exotic' Turkey and when he gets there he finds he doesn't want to do it any more. It's the only film I know of where scenes seem to replicate the visual experiences of the characters, the jaded Istanbul photographer and the wide eyed country boy cousin who imposes himself to stay, rough but more sensitive. Ceylan permits himself to photograph Anatolia in Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and recently the exceptional Winter Sleep, where he depicts a paternalistic, provincial ex-actor hotel owner who inherited land and is writing a history of the Turkish theater, based on several Dostoevsky plots including The Idiot and Crime and Punishment.
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There's a scene in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Distant where the photographer (at least partially autobiographical) goes out to Anatolia to photograph 'exotic' Turkey and when he gets there he finds he doesn't want to do it any more. It's the only film I know of where scenes seem to replicate the visual experiences of the characters, the jaded Istanbul photographer and the wide eyed country boy cousin who imposes himself to stay, rough but more sensitive. Ceylan permits himself to photograph Anatolia in Once Upon a Time in Anatolia and recently the exceptional Winter Sleep, where he depicts a paternalistic, provincial ex-actor hotel owner who inherited land and is writing a history of the Turkish theater, based on several Dostoevsky plots including The Idiot and Crime and Punishment.
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