Once Upon A Time in Anatolia

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Once Upon A Time in Anatolia (Turkey - 2011), 2011 Cannes Film Festival Grand Jury Prize winner, is a slow burning masterpiece where  the film spent the first 70% of it's running time set during one night where everyone involves, the cop, the prosecutor and the culprit try to solve one murder by finding the dead body.  One of the most impressive but also most complex entries this year in Cannes, a visually mesmerising piece of work whose quiet, apparently placid, uneventful surface, covers a myriad of themes which the attentive spectator should be only too happy to explore. Official Selections 2011CANic, 2011NYFF, 2012OE, 2012PALM. RATING ****