The Wild Pear Tree
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Writer/director Nuri Bilge Cey-
lan follows up his 2014 Palme d’Or
winner Winter Sleep with another
lengthy drama set in rural Turkey.
And as with his previous film, The
Wild Pear Tree gives us a protago-
nist who considers himself the
intellectual and moral superior of
the residents of a town he wishes
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to “drop an atom bomb on.”
Having finished college and
completed his first novel, Sinan
(Aydın Doğu Demirkol) returns
to his home village, near the port
of Çanakkale, home to both the
world’s largest preserved battle-
field at Gallipoli and the ancient
city of Troy. The residents take
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