Kis uykusu (2014)

	Also Known As: Winter sleep
	Year of first release: 2014
	Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
	Actors: Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen, Demet Akbag
	Country: TR
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 25.09.2014, Victoria Eugenia Theater, FSSDZ2014, Turkish with Spanish/English subtitles
Synopsis: Aydin (Bilginer) runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal (Sözen) with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla (Akbag) who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels bitterness.
Review: The story is based on daily life dialogues tha are not cut or summarized or distorted to have more emotion. All the dialogues are precise and finallz all important. It is the kind of dialogues that we have with the familz members, with the girlfriend, in which the knowledge of the other goes a real step forward. The story is a bit like the main character, a bit pretentious about explaining how is life and how it should be driven. It was fine for me, because I just took it for information. And not to get bored after 3 hours of dialogues means that these must have been very interesting. Nevertheless the whole story is actually basic, about guilt, about living together, about working together, about expectations towards the neighbour, towards the family.  The complete photography (light, image composition, subject, movement of people, movement of camera) is beautiful. The light is always tempered to give a warm or cold atmosphere enhancing the story. The image composition tried either to get a balance in colours, light and layers or to give a strong biais again to enhance the story. I understand why this got the Palme d'or in Cannes.
Rating: 7 /10