Winter Sleep

"There is a stereotype associated with Cannes Film Festival Palme D’Or winners  – long, glacial, art-house films filled with words not action - which isn’t much based in empirical reality. The festival first lauded the gripping The Third Man and in recent memory has lauded eventful films such as Blue is the Warmest Colour, The White Ribbon, Elephant and Pulp Fiction."

"A richly engrossing experience."

"Ceylan continues to dig with acute intelligence into the dark corners of everyday human behaviour."

"A beautiful, bold, intently serious film."

"A harsh character study that is, in fits and starts, a stunning picture."

"Sstitched together with so much wit and self-aware theatricality, it's abundantly clear how Ceylan really feels about the injured egos of the remotely rich."

"The esoteric world of masterful Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan proves as vibrant and uneasy as ever ... a Chekhovian meditation on a marriage."