An immersive slow burn, a group of law enforcers drive through the night in rural Turkey looking for the burial place of a murder victim. It’s an epic procedural narrative of character insight as frustrations rise to the surface.
A film of observations, auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep, The Wild Pear Tree) allows his tale to unfold at a gentle, real time pace with the doctor (Muhammet Uzuner – Yesilçam, Unseen) a voyeur on proceedings. A late night meal at a local mayor’s compound, aimless driving directed by the accused who has little memory of the landscape, an increasingly angry police commissioner: it’s a world of uncertainties and insecurities as dawn slowly breaks.
Rating: 64%
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