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Reviews Counted:44
Fresh:39
Rotten:5
Average Rating:7.8/10
Consensus: Hauntingly beautiful, Distant communicates volumes with its almost pervasive silence.
Theatrical Release:Mar 12, 2004 Limited
Synopsis: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's DISTANT chronicles the numbing loneliness, longing, and isolation in the lives of two men who are consumed by their own problems. Istanbul photographer Mahmut (Muzaffer Ozdemir)... [More]
Starring: Muzaffer Ozdemir, Mehmet Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer Erkaya, Nazan Kirilmis
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
There are mysteries to be explored in [Ceylan's] compositions: Why are so many people so far from the camera? Why is that floor creaking? Where did that bright red basket, suddenly lowered onto a dingy street, come from?
The film possesses a view of the human condition nearly as stark and clear-eyed as its stunning cinematography, which paints Istanbul's domes and minarets and rural Anatolia's breathtaking landscapes with a cold, haunting beauty.
Unwanted guests have a benefit: They can remind us of our own dislikes and vulnerabilities, and help us come to terms (or not) with them.
The question for many viewers will be whether this skillful exposition of urban alienation offers sufficient new insight...to justify a bleak and utterly joyless two hours.
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Top CriticThe film takes place in Turkey, but its dynamic could be transplanted anywhere -- maybe to our own families.
Top CriticA Chekhovian tale of major artistic power.
Top CriticA sublime treat for anyone with a taste for subtly rendered, almost purely cinematic expression.
Top CriticA haunting meditation on life's disappointments and the emotional chasm that that creates between people.
A doleful Turkish masterpiece.
Top CriticTurkish minimalist tale about frustrated hopes
Turkish minimalist tale about frustrated hopes
Ozdemir and Toprak, the director's cousin, shared the Best Actor Award at Cannes, and are equally superb.
Has much to say about solitude and friendship and just plain coping with life.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's wry, modest meditation on pettiness works on a minimalist scale.
Top CriticUnassuming, acutely observant drama.
Ceylan, who also served as cinematographer, frames the affecting, unstudied performances in gorgeously chosen shots and nonevents that sometimes teeter on the edge of comedy before knocking us breathless with their emotional power.
Top CriticA movie of quiet revelations that is itself quite surprising.
Top CriticActually lives up to its title; it's a muted, uninvolving film.
Once you downshift to the film's dreamy rhythms, this multiple prize-winner at Cannes and entry in the 2003 New York Film Festival offers modest rewards.
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