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May 09, 2005
Distant on DVD, 5/7/05
I had no idea it snowed in Istanbul, but when it does, it looks wonderous. This is one of those very European movies where very little seems to happen, but we watch characters go about their very average lives. An unemployed man from somewhere in the mountainous countryside of Turkey goes to stay with an older, successful photographer from the same hometown. They get on each others nerves, they try to get along, they fail. It's usual a very quiet movie and, as the two move slowly toward their emotional showdown, we watch the younger man try to get a job and watch women. The older man has conversations with his ex-wife, who's leaving with her new husband for Canada. It's all quietly and deliberately observed. I probably won't remember the characters in 10 years, but I will remember a man walking by a creaky boat floating on its side as the snow falls quietly in the bright light of winter.
Posted by deaconmf at May 9, 2005 11:59 AM
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