Uzak (2002)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.6/10   

Director:

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Guionista:

Nuri Bilge Ceylan (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

20 diciembre 2002 (Turkey)

Género:

Drama

Plot:

Mahmut, a 40 year old independent photographer, is a "village boy made good" at least professionally in the big city - Istanbul in this case...

Plot Keywords:

Istanbul | Car | Dream | Surrealism | Hospital

Premios:

18 wins & 3 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

It's a Turkish movie

Reparto

Muzaffer Özdemir	...	Mahmut
Emin Toprak	...	Yusuf
Zuhal Gencer	...	Nazan (as Zuhal Gencer Erkaya)
Nazan Kirilmis	...	Lover
Feridun Koc	...	Janitor
Fatma Ceylan	...	Mother
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Arif Asçi
Nazli Aydin
Ahmet Bugay
Ebru Ceylan		(as Ebru Yapici)
Ayhan Ergürsel
Erhan Ersoy
Cemal Gülas
Engin Hepsev
Ercan Kesal
Hakan Kuldan
Asli Orhun
Ahmet Özyurt
Bahaltin Surler

Dirigida por
Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Créditos del guión (en orden alfabético)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan		writer

Producida por
Nuri Bilge Ceylan	....	producer
Feridun Koc	....	line producer

Fotografía por
Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Montaje por
Ayhan Ergürsel

Diseño de producción por
Ebru Ceylan		(as Ebru Yapici)

Ayudante de dirección
Serkan Cindoruk	....	second assistant director

Departamento de sonido
Ismail Karadas	....	sound

Compañías Productores

• NBC Ajans
• NBC Film

Distribuidores

• Artificial Eye (2004) (UK) (all media)
• Filmcoopi Zürich (2003) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• Lady Film (2004) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Mongrel Media (2004) (Canada) (all media)
• New Yorker Films (2004) (USA) (subtitled)
• Pelicanfilms (2004) (Switzerland) (DVD)
• Özen Film

También conocida como:

Distant (International: English title)
Distante (Argentina) (festival title) [es]
Lejano (Spain) [es]

Duración:

110 min

País:

Turkey

Idioma:

Turco

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Clasificación:

Hungary:14 | South Korea:15 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:12 (canton of Vaud) | UK:15 | Argentina:13 | Italy:T

Locaciones de Filmación:

Istanbul, Turkey

Compañía:

NBC Ajans

Trivialidades:

The car Mahmut drives all through the film, a Smart, is actually the director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's own.

Conexiones de Película:

Apariciones Koza (1995)

It's a Turkish movie

When you're watching Distant you know you're not watching a French movie, there's little sex and it's mostly elliptical and people don't talk that much here, there are a few lines scattered here and there and a couple of important conversations, just to let you make sense of what's going on. It doesn't look American either, there aren't any car chases or shoot-outs or violence, unless you consider the killing of a mouse an act of blood or the daily tension of getting by a subdued catastrophe. At times, the relatively long-held medium-distance shots may remind you of 'contemplative' Asian cinema, but just reminds you, the director doesn't push things to the radical minimalism of some Taiwanese filmmakers but then again, this is not a Taiwanese movie, it's a Turkish movie. I don't know what that means, I don't even know if that's supposed to mean something.

The movie doesn't have a plot proper and yet, those few lines, those somewhat long-held shots and that often mitigated tension gradually build a sense of something happening, a sense of 'plot', for lack of a better word, that grows on you. By the end of the movie you may get the feeling you're going to miss those two cousins who have many things in common but are worlds apart.