Synopsis
“A master of widescreen composition,
Ceylan smoothly conjugates vast, craggy landscapes and all-too-intimate domestic interiors in this study of a toxic but stubbornly persistent relationship.
Ceylan and his wife,
Ebru Ceylan, offer unsparing portrayals of the central couple, a desiccated, massively self-involved Istanbul academic and his possessively romantic partner, an art director for a turgid television series.
Ceylan employs extended silences and achingly empty spaces to evoke the contradictory feelings that bind the pair in a permanent dance of rupture and reunion.”– MOMA