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20.05.2023 - 11:05 / deadline.com
When is time not on the side of any Cannes film premiere?
Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s About Dry Grasses, which had its world premiere Friday night, follows the middle-class melancholy of a Turkish rural village art teacher, clocks in at 3 hours and 17 minutes. So far, the movie is one of few weighing in at the 3-hour-plus stretch; the other, premiering Saturday, being Martin Scorsese’s Killers of the Flower Moon at 3 hours and 26 minutes.
However, Ceylan said today at the his film’s Cannes press conference that he could have made his snow-laden epic so much longer.
“The film could have continued on for a very long time,” Ceylan told the press.
About Dry Glasses follows Samet, whose school is an area where there’s essentially two seasons: snow and yellow grass. In his humdrum existence, he becomes fascinated by a young female student, Sevim, who he tries to mentor; that backfires after he’s accused of touching her. However, it’s Samet’s female colleague, an English teacher named Nuray, who helps him to regain a perspective after he feels all is lost to gloom.
Talking about the ending, Ceylan explained, “The bird flies away at the end, and I had the impression that he (Samet) has a new perspective on the region where he lives.”
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan enters press conference for ‘About Dry Grasses.’ He won Palme d'Or for Winter ‘Sleep’ in 2014 #Cannes2023 pic.twitter.com/vpxMkd6uei
Talking about returning to a snowy remote environ again after his 2014 Palme d’Or winning Winter Sleep, Ceylan explained, “For the main character, it was necessary to be someplace isolated because happiness can be achieved wherever you are — that’s at least what people think.”
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Nuri Bilge Ceylan has been a Cannes regular since his debut short, “Koza,” in 1995. An assured auteur from the very beginning, Ceylan made a name for Turkey on the festival circuit, and every year he brings a new title to the Croisette, critics and audiences alike already know what they’re in for.