Flicks with The Film Snob

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A teacher at a rural middle school in Turkey is unjustly accused of impropriety by a girl student, but this crisis confronts him with his own lack of awareness. Over the past thirty years, Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan has been gaining stature as one of the world’s best living directors. His style features long takes, wide shots, and minimal camera movement. Lately, though, he’s been making what I would simply call “philosophical” films that examine human nature and culture, moral responsibility, the individual versus the mass, and the doubts and inner struggles that human beings always go through. Ceylan…
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Flicks with The Film SnobBy Chris Dashiell

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