FILM REVIEW:
Winter Sleep
By Eric Hillis, TheMovieWaffler.com
It’s at this time of year that we
usually get the chance to finally
see all those movies we got so
excited about during the Cannes
Film Festival back in May. Turkish
auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Winter
Sleep arrives carrying the boast
of being this year’s Palme d’Or
winner, something that can often
be a burden on a film, as many
past winners have failed to live
up to the hype generated in those
sunny weeks of May. Ceylan’s latest work probably isn’t the best
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movie to have featured in this
year’s competition, but it certainly
doesn’t disappoint.
Aydin (Bilginer) is a retired stage
actor, now the proprietor of a
hotel in rural Anatolia, having inherited the establishment, along
with several rented homes in a
nearby town, from his father. He
boasts of writing the definitive
history of Turkish theatre, but he’s
yet to type a single word in his
planned tome. Instead he contributes a weekly column to the lo-
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