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Distant (2004)
89 %
Reviews Counted: 44 Fresh: 39 Rotten:5 Average Rating: 7.8/10
Consensus:
Hauntingly beautiful, Distant communicates volumes with its almost pervasive silence.
Rated: 15
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Theatrical Release: 28-05-2004
Synopsis: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's DISTANT chronicles the numbing loneliness, longing, and isolation in the lives of two men who are consumed by their own problems. Istanbul photographer Mahmut (Muzaffer Ozdemir) reluctantly receives his relative Yusuf (Mehmet Emin Toprak), but the mingling of their... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Muzaffer Ozdemir, Mehmet Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer Erkaya, Nazan Kirilmis, Feridun Koc
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Few recent films have been so accomplished in capturing the way people drift through their lives, unable to communicate their emotions and feelings.
05/18/04
Top Critic
This precisely paced, sensitively performed drama speaks volumes about the growing distance that modern urban living is putting between people who would otherwise have so much in common.
05/14/04
Top Critic
The film is virtually wordless as we watch the characters dealing with each other.... There's a gentle but sharp humour at work here.
11/04/03
The tale has a deceptive, emotional complexity that builds to a surprisingly heartrending impact.
09/08/05
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07/21/05
He'd love to mimic Antonioni and Ozu, but Ceylan still has much to learn about crafting quiet scenes
03/26/05
Deeply compassionate and frequently amusing, qualifying as a minor miracle of humanely observant filmmaking.
01/28/05
A startlingly quiet film that is buoyed by a droll humor, splendid visuals and bittersweet reflections into the human condition.
01/18/05
Top Critic
The film's extraordinary shifts from windswept sorrow ... to deadpan comedy ... are uniquely, triumphantly their maker's own.
09/22/04
Ultimately, it becomes a movie about the feeling of being alive, the sensation of existence. It's a movie, in a way, about everything.
07/23/04
Straightforward, droll, brutally honest and arresting, if somewhat stately in progress.
07/23/04
For arthouse fans this should be a must - filled as it is with lingering shots, awkward silences and the growing weight of knowing that no character will end up smiling.
07/16/04
Films that insist on long periods of nothingness need to earn those periods.
05/21/04
The cumulative force of so many quiet, unforced little moments add up, and it wasn’t until a good hour after I’d seen the film that it really took hold of me.
05/21/04
There is no simple sense of uplift in Distant. But there is an exhilaration to revealing the human condition, and Ceylan is ever on the lookout.
05/14/04
This is a movie that dares to ask a powerful question: What does it mean to be really alone? How does it look?
05/14/04
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