Winter Sleep (2014) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (REVIEW)

The duration of this movie is three hours and sixteen minutes, which makes this movie to be a timeless masterpiece. After I watched the movie I knew that I won’t come across to something like this…ever.

This movie is chosen twice for the best movie from Non-English speaking background (NESB) and I understand why, totally justified.

By watching the movie, we can witness a slow atmosphere in Cappadocia while winter is approaching, somehow the time is equate with the characters, and they become colder.

Since the duration is three plus hours, then we kind of assume what the movie is going to be about, this movie has a lot of long dialogues between the characters.

The main character in the movie is a former actor, column writer and owner of a small hotel in in the steppes of Cappadocia.

In the midst of great poverty, he is the richest man in the area and the most hated. A small unpleasant event will be the cause of the update of a nearly forgotten argument. His lovely, many-year-younger woman, who may be the one of the most complex characters it’s displayed like a very calm woman while inside her, there is a huge desire that wants to burst and say something out loud.

And there is his sister which they will have a lot of long discussions, well played, they seem like they are brother and sister in real life too. The movie may be even better if you watch it in cold season, you can relate with the place and characters and have enjoyable three hours and sixteen minutes.

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