Gonul Donmez-Colin,the writer and festival consultant and Nuri Bilge Ceylan ,the renowned film maker from Turkey and director of Winter Sleep,Once Upon a Time in Anatolia,Three Monkeys,Climates,Distant,Clouds of May and The Town exchanged their views on films. Ceylan shared his life with films and views on his latest film Winter Sleep ,which won this year's Cannes Film Festival Palm d' Or award and shown in the World Cinema category of IFFK.During the conversation Ceylan said the Women are more stronger than men in all aspects.He said he has plans to do his next film but he won't disclose details as it is a very personal matter.He also said that film once made is like a letter written and posted to unknown recipients...
"Over the course of his seven feature films – the last five of which
have won prizes at Cannes – the Turkish filmmaker and photographer Nuri
Bilge Ceylan has moved from a dramaturgy primarily based in photography
(in films such as 2002’s Distant) to one based firmly in screenwriting, as in the elegant structure and dialogues of 2011’s Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. This
development as a screenwriter has been accomplished in tandem with his
wife, Ebru Ceylan, with whom he has co-written the last three films.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan was trained first as a chemical and then electrical
engineer before turning to photography and cinema, and his writing
shows traces of an engineer’s methodicalness. Climates, in which he co-stars with Ebru, is written in three acts of almost uniform length. Once Upon a Time in Anatolia takes place in two nearly equal acts, the first at night and the second during the day. His latest, Winter Sleep,
continues developing the couple’s screenwriting approach. Its
196-minute running time is structured around long dialogue scenes, and
Nuri Bilge Ceylan worried whether audiences would accept this more
literary approach; that the film won the Palme d’Or at the 2014 Cannes
Film Festival indicates some have.
Filmed in the stunning Anatolian landscape of Cappadocia with its fairy tale cliffs, Winter Sleep
is a Chekhovian family drama, both intimate and epic at the same time,
focusing on Aydin, a former actor who has retired to remote Anatolia to
run a hotel that belonged to his late parents. He is a reluctant
landlord resented by his tenants, as well as by his beautiful wife
Nihal, with whom he has a difficult relationship. His divorced sister
Decla, who has returned from Istanbul to live at the hotel as well,
considers him a pompous hypocrite. Aydin’s inheritance has allowed him
to live as a bit of a tyrant, blind to his effect on other people’s
lives and utterly unwilling to examine his illusions about himself. As
in a Chekhov story (1999’s Clouds of May was dedicated to the
writer), we meet these characters as their way of life is coming to an
end. All this is set off in an early scene when the son of one of
Aydin’s tenants throws a rock at his car, shattering his window. The
delicate balance that had allowed the characters to maintain their
untenable situation begins to crumble."
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