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Nine months have passed since the last Cannes Film Festival, and we are still reaping the benefits, or, if you prefer, suffering the consequences. It would appear that the mood du jour on the sunny Riviera last year was a lightly hypnotized flow of daze and dread. Gus Van Sant's "Elephant," which won the Palme d'Or, opened and shut here a couple of months back, Lars Von Trier's "Dogville" will shortly be annoying people in a theatre near you, and now we have "Distant," a picture so stately and becalmed that its undisputed climax comes with the trapping of a very thin mouse.
Yet the movie does have strange adhesive ...
- Distant.(Climates)(Movie review)
- Magazine article from: Cineaste Arslan, Savas June 22, 2007 700+ words
...series. Nonetheless, in Distant, despite his elite...relative Yusuf (Mehmet Emin Toprak). Later, when alone...central male characters of Distant and Climates are themselves...of the wind chime in Distant or the music box in...Ceylan films. Mehmet Emin Toprak is Saffet ...
- 'DISTANT' DEVELOPS CLOSE-UP OF LONELINESS FILMMAKER'S CLINICAL EYE YIELDS...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) Denerstein, Robert May 14, 2004 700+ words
...life is disrupted when a distant cousin (Mehmet Emin Toprak) moves into his apartment...courageous film artist. INFOBOX Distant Distant relatives share a cramped...Istanbul, Yusuf (Mehmet Emin Toprak) wanders the city that is...
- DISTANT' EXPLORES A WORLD OF PAINFUL LONELINESS.(RHYTHM)
- Newspaper article from: Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI) May 20, 2004 700+ words
...with Yusuf (Mehmet Emin Toprak) trudging across a...on the doorstep of a distant cousin, Mahmut (Muzaffer...depressing enough for you. DISTANT *** Rated: Not rated...Muzaffer Ozdemir, Mehmet Emin Toprak. Length: 1:45...well as each other in "Distant."
- Plot of 'Distant' can't live up to Turkish vistas; Story of lazy houseguest...
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times July 23, 2004 700+ words
...THE WASHINGTON TIMES "Distant," exclusively at the...younger relative, Yusuf (Emin Toprak), arrives from the...HALF STARS TITLE: "Distant" RATING: No MPAA rating...STARS CAPTION(S): Emin Toprak's Yusuf comes to Istanbul...looking for work in "Distant," playing at Landmark...
- Deliberately spare drama keeps viewers at a 'Distance'.(Time Out!)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) Sobczynski, Peter April 9, 2004 700+ words
...Herald Correspondent "Distant" out of four Opens today...Ozdemir Mahmut Mehmet Emin Toprak Yusuf Written, produced...as the Turkish drama "Distant." The film focuses...cousin Yusuf (Mehmet Emin Toprak) arrives from Canada...
- Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban.
- Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) May 27, 2004 700+ words
...US, 124min also opening this week Uzak (Distant) (15) Muzaffer Uzdemir, Mehmet Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer Erkaya. Dir: Nuri Bilge...wife leaves him. His cousin Yusuf (Mehmet Emin Toprak, right) is similarly stretched by life...
- Climates and other disasters: Robin Wood on the films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
- Magazine article from: Artforum International Wood, Robin November 1, 2006 700+ words
...Istanbul, either entirely (Distant) or centrally (Climates...couple. Clouds of May and Distant are, in turn, connected by...Muzaffer Ozdemir and Mehmet Emin Toprak--who become increasingly...sympathetic light) with Toprak in Distant. Toprak, for his part, has...
- LIMITED RUNS.(What's Happening)
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) January 28, 2005 700+ words
...minutes of his short films. Distant There are no pleasures, as...in Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "Distant," and that, in some immeasurable...station in life. Yusuf (Mehmet Emin Toprak) has come to Istanbul from...the melancholy. He pushes "Distant," which won the 2003 jury...
