Uzak (Distant) The Guardian
Uzak NBC Film
Uzak IMDb (7,6 out of 10)
If ever a film was composed in a minor key, it is this beautiful and sad movie from the Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, which simply floats like a helium balloon above the middling mainstreamers that have rolled up this week. It attains a clarity and simplicity that lesser film-makers could strain every sinew trying to achieve without ever getting anywhere. To Ceylan, these things are as easy as breathing. Uzak is about loneliness and depression, and particularly the kind of depression suffered by men of a certain age who would cut their tongues out rather than admit they are depressed.
Yet the film itself is, gloriously, the opposite of depressing. It is gentle and deeply humane, and even ventures into an arena of delicate visual comedy with a shy adroitness that Woody Allen might admire. Watching it is like taking a deep draught of cold, clear water. The fact that one of its actors, Mehmet Emin Toprak, died shortly after filming only increases its piquant quality.
Uzak means "distant": an idea whose metaphorical significance matches, though without outstripping, the more obvious sense of physical distance and estrangement. The movie actually forms the third of what could be thought of as a trilogy of autobiographical movies from Ceylan, the first two being The Small Town (1998) and Clouds of May (1999), works which use the director's own friends and family and hometown locations. (The Guardian; Peter Bradshaw)
Awards (International)
| 2003 - Cannes Film Festival · Grand Prix du Jury · Best Actor (Muzaffer Özdemir and Mehmet Emin Toprak) 2003 - Cinemaya Film Festival, India · Best Film 2003 - FIPRESCI Grand Prix for Best Film of the year 2003 - Cinemanila Film Festival, Philippines · Grand Prize for Best Film (Lino Brocka Award) 2003 - Film Camera Festival “MANAKI BROTHERS”, Macedonia · Special Jury Prize (as DoP) 2003 - Mid East Film Festival, Beirut · Best Film · Best Screenplay 2003 - Chicago Film Festival, USA · Silver Hugo | 2003 - Montpellier Film Festival, France |
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