Bibliograph

Uzak, Distant, a New Yorker Films release ; yapim, NBC Ajans ; senaryo / yönetmen [screenplay/director], Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Type

Label

Uzak, Distant, a New Yorker Films release ; yapim, NBC Ajans ; senaryo / yönetmen [screenplay/director], Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Language

tur

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

Uzak

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

57735069

resource.otherEventInformation

Originally produced as a Turkish motion picture in 2002

Responsibility statement

a New Yorker Films release ; yapim, NBC Ajans ; senaryo / yönetmen [screenplay/director], Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Runtime

105

Sub title

Distant

Summary

Yusuf, laid off when the factory in his economically depressed village closes, decides to board a bus for Istanbul and stay at the home of his urbanite cousin, a successful and cosmopolitan art photographer named Mahmut. Yusef dreams of working on freighters, an exotic life of global travel far from his bucolic, insular village. Mahmut, divorced, forty-something, intensely private and self-consumed, grows increasingly resentful and impatient over his aimless and naïve cousin's unformed plans. He begins picking fights with Yusef for breaking the house rules during his brief absences. An elegantly realized, pensive, and hauntingly lucid exposition on the unarticulated desolation of self-imposed urban alienation, rootlessness, estrangement, and solitude

Table Of Contents

Off to Istanbul -- Mahmut's routine -- Houseguest -- Winter wonderland -- Time together -- Job search -- Drifting apart -- "Photography is dead." -- When the cat's away -- Night on the town -- Boiling point -- Missing watch -- Caught in the trap -- Departure -- Along again -- End credits

Technique

live action

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Distant

Classification