Perhaps his most explicit indictment of the power dynamics belonging to nationalism and petty authority, Kasaba also explores how a family might function as a microcosm of society.
Such is the intensity of Ceylan’s vision that a perfectly natural, even casual, course of events, which is what the film consists of, makes “Kasaba” utterly compelling.
[A] strikingly original, vibrantly sensitive look at an extended family living in a remote Turkish village... Shoestring shooting (director did his own cinematography) in no way detracts from what the film wants to say and lends it great intimacy.