Video Essay: "Blurring Subjectivity" | Nuri Bilge Ceylan's ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA

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Video essay by Michaela Popescu.
"Blurring Subjectivity in 'Once Upon a Time in Anatolia' - A Study of Perspectives" by Michaela Popescu
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA is now streaming on MUBI: mubi.com/films/once-upon-a-ti...
ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA
Turkey’s pre-eminent auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan took home the Grand Prix prize from the Cannes Film Festival with this hypnotic, slow-burning neo-noir. In Ceylan’s trademark visual rhythms, mysteries stack upon mysteries in an enigmatic journey through a landscape, a murder, and a chiaroscuro night.
In the dead of night, a police commissioner, a prosecutor, a doctor and a murder suspect drive through the tenebrous Anatolian countryside. They are searching for a corpse, the victim of a brutal murder. As the night draws on, the investigators’ own secrets and hypocrisies come to light.
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[@ML-yw4hv]

one of the most atmospheric/haunting movies i've witnessed

[@canyildiz5966]

one of the greatest working directors today. I would say my favourite contemporary filmmakers are him and koreeda

[@nicolaschallenor1120]

Haha, this was very similar to what I was going to write. I'm waiting patiently for Ceylan's next film.

[@spoon8247]

About Dry Grasses and Monster are two of the best films in 2023

[@d.keskin209]

Nuri Bilge Ceylan is among the best directors in the world.

[@StereoChimps]

i love these type of videos !! always a good lesson , thank you mubi!

[@RGBEAT]

Thank you. I love mubi video essays. Art in themselves.

[@gol6683]

This was interesting. I’m now looking forward to these video essays.

[@Christopher.white_]

Masterful sound design. Perhaps doing more work than the camera.

[@rahulghosh9118]

All of Ceylan's films have thoughtful Sound Design.

[@akashpatil5008]

There are days I feel like doing nothing and I just watch Nuri's cinema.

[@gardikagigih5704]

thank you MUBI!

[@speedy_7676]

i love it i'm gonna watch this movie

[@DamjanB52]

The link to the introduction doesn't work ..

[@jalapeno3500]

Cehov style.

[@cemakdemir8862]

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

[@denizklod8579]

3:31 the Arab says that because the animal eats fresh meat, it smells of yogurt, but cows / buffaloes do not eat meat, is this a mistake or done on purpose?

[@milanxlewis]

The subtitles say they eat fresh grass

[@denizklod8579]

​@@milanxlewis They speak Turkish, and he says, buffalo eats fresh meat, or so it appears because the voices overlap..

[@Cinetasticc]

Goddamn