Uzak (2002)

Drama | 110 min min

IMDB :

7.7/10

7.7

Movie Info

Directors : Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Writers : Cemil Kavukçu • Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Languages : Turkish
Country: Turkey
Genre: Drama
Keywords: photographer, factory, ship, car, tarkovskyesque, watching tv, airport, solitary, hitchhiking, following someone, cafe, pocket watch, existentialism, car alarm, detachment, inflation, recession, ex husband ex wife relationship, brother sister relationship, answering machine, telephone call, abandoned ship, money, vacuum cleaner, photography, freighter, pier, dock, isolation, cigarette smoking, depression, despair, guilt, anger, rain, illness, country cousin, cousin cousin relationship, camera, prayer, infertility, abortion, divorce, pregnancy, forty something, unemployment, loneliness, family relationships, father son relationship, mother son relationship, husband wife relationship, surrealism, mouse, turkey the country, tragedy, snow, smoke, pub, istanbul turkey, hospital, hope, guest, dream, beer, independent film
Language: Turkish
Metascore: 84
IMDB Url : (tt0346094)
Release Date : 2002-12-20

Movie Companies :

Movie Crew

Directing :
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Director)
Writing :
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Writer)
- Cemil Kavukçu (Writer)
Production :
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Producer)
- Feridun Koc (Producer)
Art :
Camera :
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Director of Photography)
Costume & Make-Up :
Editing :
- Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Editor)
- Ayhan Ergürsel (Editor)
Lighting :
Sound :
- Richard Welsh (Dolby Consultant)
- Ismail Karadas (Sound)
Sound :
- Richard Welsh (Dolby Consultant)
- Ismail Karadas (Sound)
Visual Effects :
Crew :

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Movie Story

Mahmut, a 40 year old independent photographer, is a “village boy made good” at least professionally in the big city – Istanbul in this case. After his wife leaves him, he falls into an existential crisis. Then comes his cousin Yusuf, who left his native village after a local factory closed down, effectively unemploying over half the local men. He looks to Istanbul for salvation: a job on board a ship sailing abroad, at once exciting and crucial to supporting his family in the desperately poor village. The distance between the two men is apparent at once, and becomes increasingly pronounced. Whereas Mahmut is adusted to big city life and suffers from many of its neuroses, Yusuf is a lonely, excentric country worker with annoying nervous and hygienic habits, and a sick mother back home he must somehow support. This intimate drama was filmed in the director’s apartment in Istanbul, using all his furniture, appliances, rooms, car and so on as the film’s props. The actor playing Yusuf is …