Post by Capo on Apr 7, 2007 14:10:53 GMT
Kasaba
The Small Town
Nuri Bilge Ceylan 1998 Turkey
Across four seasons in a small rural village, two children experience life at school and at home.
Ceylan's first feature is a quiet and personal film, very abstract and quite affecting, concentrating on otherwise unseen moments and relationships outside of dialogue, the beauty of Nature, the nature of memory and fragments of chance. It reveals a confident artist, and his background in photography prior to film comes as no surprise, since he relies heavily on visual composition for emotional effect and resonance: while the crickets chirp relentlessly in the background, ageing characters reminisce around a fire at night about a past which is either distant (to the talkers) or altogether alien (to the listeners). The early scenes, in a children's classroom, have a rare, natural intimacy to them, similar to Loach (and Kes in particular); but this director's aesthetic is far more lasting.
The Small Town
Nuri Bilge Ceylan 1998 Turkey
Across four seasons in a small rural village, two children experience life at school and at home.
Ceylan's first feature is a quiet and personal film, very abstract and quite affecting, concentrating on otherwise unseen moments and relationships outside of dialogue, the beauty of Nature, the nature of memory and fragments of chance. It reveals a confident artist, and his background in photography prior to film comes as no surprise, since he relies heavily on visual composition for emotional effect and resonance: while the crickets chirp relentlessly in the background, ageing characters reminisce around a fire at night about a past which is either distant (to the talkers) or altogether alien (to the listeners). The early scenes, in a children's classroom, have a rare, natural intimacy to them, similar to Loach (and Kes in particular); but this director's aesthetic is far more lasting.