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Üç Maymun (original title)
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Writers: Ebru Ceylan & Ercan Kesal (screenplay)
Cast: Yavuz Bingöl, Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rifat Sungar
Genre: Drama
Language: Turkish
"A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships."
I enjoyed it! It's my kind of film...I loved the slow cinema, take your time, nothing forced, & nothing phony feeling of the movie. It felt very real to me, like I was watching the lives of three working class people in Turkey as they deal with the problems life gave them.
I was instantly interested in these people and I stayed focus through out the film, which is always a good sign. It felt like a slice of life from a part of the world I know nothing about, which interested me. I was glad the film kept the events down to earth too. I think the film was more effective by having the killing and sex take place off screen, instead of putting it right into our faces. I like a minimalist approach, as I believe less is more. Besides the film is about the way the people react to these events, and not so much about the events themselves.
I know there were a couple of technical issues with the film. But I won't hold that against the film maker as I'm sure he was working on a tight budget. Which might explain why there was dialogue in the car scene with the wife and the boss, and yet they weren't shown talking. They must have either decided later that the scene needed more explaining so added in more dialogue, or perhaps footage that they shot didn't turn out so it couldn't be used.
Three Monkeys (2008)
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Writers: Ebru Ceylan & Ercan Kesal (screenplay)
Cast: Yavuz Bingöl, Hatice Aslan, Ahmet Rifat Sungar
Genre: Drama
Language: Turkish
"A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to get through their hardships."
I enjoyed it! It's my kind of film...I loved the slow cinema, take your time, nothing forced, & nothing phony feeling of the movie. It felt very real to me, like I was watching the lives of three working class people in Turkey as they deal with the problems life gave them.
I was instantly interested in these people and I stayed focus through out the film, which is always a good sign. It felt like a slice of life from a part of the world I know nothing about, which interested me. I was glad the film kept the events down to earth too. I think the film was more effective by having the killing and sex take place off screen, instead of putting it right into our faces. I like a minimalist approach, as I believe less is more. Besides the film is about the way the people react to these events, and not so much about the events themselves.
I know there were a couple of technical issues with the film. But I won't hold that against the film maker as I'm sure he was working on a tight budget. Which might explain why there was dialogue in the car scene with the wife and the boss, and yet they weren't shown talking. They must have either decided later that the scene needed more explaining so added in more dialogue, or perhaps footage that they shot didn't turn out so it couldn't be used.