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Your support makes all the difference.Nuri Bilge Ceylan writes, directs and stars in this opaque, meditative but riveting study in spiritual stagnation. Set against three different seasonal backdrops, it tracks the disintegrating relationship between Bahar (Ebru Ceylan) and her emotionally reticent husband Isa (Ceylan), starting on a summer holiday in Kas where a dinner with friends reveals deep and perhaps irreparable fissures in their marriage. In the autumn Isa strikes up with an old flame, but something - is it panic, or love, or what? - later spurs him to seek out Bahar in the remote, snowbound mountains where she's been working.
Ceylan's largely static camera places enormous trust in the acting to convey their shifting states of isolation, bitterness and regret, and in the final section the mood becomes so introspective it's hard to know what meaning might be unpicked. But even in its most enigmatic phases the presence of the two leads and the camera's still compositions compel our attention.
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