Three Monkeys

Üç maymun

France, Italy, Turkey

2008

109 Min

Color

2.35:1

Turkish

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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PROD Zeynep Özbatur, Fabienne Vonier, Valerio De Paolis, Nuri Bilge Ceylan

SCR Ebru Ceylan, Ercan Kesal, Nuri Bilge Ceylan

CAST Yavuz Bingol, Hatice Aslan, Rifat Sungar, Ercan Kesal

ED Ayhan Ergürsel, Bora Göksingöl, Nuri Bilge Ceylan

SOUND Murat Senürkmez

Cannes (In Competition): Best Director, Toronto, London (Film On the Square), São Paulo (Perspective)

Synopsis

Near the Bosporus, Eyüp and Hacer live in a modest flat with their son Ismail, in his twenties, who’s doing poorly in his studies. Few words pass between them, and a past family tragedy brings sorrow daily. On a rainy night, Eyüp’s boss Servet, a wealthy businessman who’s entering politics, hits a pedestrian on a lonely road. He drives off and offers money to Eyüp if Eyüp will take the fall – probably a six-month sentence. Eyüp agrees, and while he’s in prison, Ismail wants his mother to ask Servet for enough money to buy a car. Servet, in turn, desires Hacer. How can this play out? –IMDb

Director

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Nuri Bilge Ceylan (born 26 January 1959 in Istanbul) is a Turkish photographer and film director. He is married to the filmmaker, photographer, and actress Ebru Ceylan, his co-star in İklimler.

Ceylan learned photography at age 15, and developed an interest in film at 22. After graduating from Boğaziçi University with a BSc degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, he went on with his studies on cinema for two years at Mimar Sinan University.

Ceylan’s first short film Koza (Cocoon) was screened in the Cannes Film Festival in 1995. He received many awards with his debut feature Kasaba (Small Town). His third feature Uzak (Distant) received many awards including the Grand Jury Prize and the Best Actor Prize at Cannes, and was praised internationally. His 2006 film Iklimler (Climates) won the FIPRESCI Movie Critics’ Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival and received international praise by critics and experts. The film won 5 awards at the 2006 Antalya Golden Orange… read more

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Peter Brooks Lazar

8Dec11

I really liked most of this film. Ceylan's visual storytelling is really to be commended. However, the whole last act felt very false to me: both meandering and forced (if that's possible). Really interested in seeing Once Upon a Time in Anatolia now.

Adrian

24Jun11

I liked the character of the father. Also the light and the picture are stunning, it does more for the drammatic moments than the dialogues themselves.

obpulent

17Jun11

episodes of beutiful artistic pictures... not so moving pictures though.

răpciune

1Apr11

wow, of what i have seen, this is his most "action" film. compared to uzak, it's hollywood. the drone scene with the man in front of the ventilator was fantastic. seeing it on big screen is a must. you can almost hear the myriad thoughts and fragments of emotions moving under the skin, passing through like a vortex of smashed glass through a wire nexus. loved it.

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