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Critics Consensus: The Wild Pear Tree uses a young man's post-graduation experience to pose thoughtful, engaging questions about life in modern Turkey -- and the rest of the world.
Critic Consensus: The Wild Pear Tree uses a young man's post-graduation experience to pose thoughtful, engaging questions about life in modern Turkey -- and the rest of the world.
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Cemcir's performance, suffused with a kind of wily, defiant grace, has an emotional depth that makes this movie's spirit not just heavy and somber, but also curiously forgiving.
The unapologetic, sometimes heavy-handed literariness of "The Wild Pear Tree" is leavened by hints of grim comedy and sharp, if subtle, social criticism.
[A]t its best, The Wild Pear Tree captures not just the feeling, but also the process of coming to terms with one's place in society-and that, if nothing else, requires patience.
You find yourself gradually engulfed, as if by rising waters...
An Eastern European version of The Graduate - if The Graduate were dour, without sex and three hours long.
The Wild Pear Tree brilliantly illuminates the gap in life between what is desired and what is achieved, but the metaphorical light seeps into the frame rather than fully exposing it.
The film's narrative arc demands attentiveness. It's dense and talky, with a lot to absorb and almost no time to reflect. The deep meaning of the words blended with the pure, hyper-realistic filmmaking style of Ceylan, makes it a very rich experience.
The film is filled with conversation and I found the first and third hour to be most gripping.
There are no winners to be found, not even that regional author whose feet hurt from listening to Sinan. There is still something to be won, though: if not forgiveness, then the capacity to forgive.
The Wild Pear Tree is rigorous and there's genuine depth to its central examination of fathers and sons, but the audience has to do a whole lot of work to meet it at its level.
A devastatingly political work, this is a quietly told film about father/son dynamics that uses sudden bursts of surrealism to become something quietly revolutionary.
I did not know that I loved The Wild Pear Tree until the final ten minutes of its three-hour plus run.
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