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Critics Consensus: Hauntingly beautiful, Distant communicates volumes with its almost pervasive silence.
Critic Consensus: Hauntingly beautiful, Distant communicates volumes with its almost pervasive silence.
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Deeply compassionate and frequently amusing, qualifying as a minor miracle of humanely observant filmmaking.
A beautifully made, unapologetically artistic piece of work.
The film's extraordinary shifts from windswept sorrow ... to deadpan comedy ... are uniquely, triumphantly their maker's own.
Ultimately, it becomes a movie about the feeling of being alive, the sensation of existence. It's a movie, in a way, about everything.
Straightforward, droll, brutally honest and arresting, if somewhat stately in progress.
There is no simple sense of uplift in Distant. But there is an exhilaration to revealing the human condition, and Ceylan is ever on the lookout.
There is plenty to admire here, but the movie is a gaunt affair, with something ruinously washed-out about it.
The tale has a deceptive, emotional complexity that builds to a surprisingly heartrending impact.
He'd love to mimic Antonioni and Ozu, but Ceylan still has much to learn about crafting quiet scenes
A startlingly quiet film that is buoyed by a droll humor, splendid visuals and bittersweet reflections into the human condition.
It's bleak, yes, but it's beautiful in equal measure.
For arthouse fans this should be a must - filled as it is with lingering shots, awkward silences and the growing weight of knowing that no character will end up smiling.
a great portrait of urban alienation and destruction of the family. with wonderful photography
Super Reviewer
I guess I rather watch slices of cake than slices of life. Hitchcock was always right. Why is that some filmmakers think they are giving us profound, meaningful messages through flat out nothingness?
An interesting if not totally fulfilling introduction to Turkish cinema.
A film about isolation. Not much happens and not much is said, but it's still an absorbing watch.
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