The Wild Pear Tree
Directed by NURI BILGE CEYLAN
Starring DOGU DEMIRKOL MURAT CEMCIR BENNU YILDIRIMLAR
Released 30 NOVEMBER
Given that Nuri Bilge Ceylan is yet to celebrate his 60th birthday, it would be pre-emptive to describe as a late-period film in the director’s career. It certainly has the feel of one though; the kind of unfashionably heavyweight in 2002, dissect the social and generational chasms between rural and urban lives. A modern, derivative study in romantic ennui and an exercise in genre followed with and , before an expansive change of tack in and the Palme d’Or winning .
