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    Review: A father-son drama takes absorbing root in 'The Wild Pear Tree'

    by Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times Feb 11, 2019 4 minutes

    Early on in "The Wild Pear Tree," a rich and ruminative new movie from the Turkish writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, there is a bracingly sharp, infuriating exchange - a small masterpiece of irritation. In the coastal Turkish town of Canakkale, a recent university graduate and aspiring novelist named Sinan (Aydin Dogu Demirkol) enters a bookshop and strikes up a conversation with Suleyman (Serkan Keskin), whom he recognizes as a popular local author.

    The older writer cautiously indulges the younger one's questions. But after a few minutes of listening to what Sinan has to say - backhanded compliments, self-flattering presumptions and callow, high-minded jabs

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