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Distant
Directed by
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Not Rated
2002
1h 49m
Drama
,
Comedy
7.5
87%
82%
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After his wife leaves him, a photographer has an existential crisis and tries to cope with his cousin's visit.
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Where to Watch Distant
Kanopy
Free
Cast of Distant
Muzaffer Özdemir
Mahmut
Mehmet Emin Toprak
Yusuf
Zuhal Gencer
Nazan (as Zuhal Gencer Erkaya)
Nazan Kesal
Lover (as Nazan Kırılmış)
Feridun Koç
Janitor
Fatma Ceylan
Mother
Ebru Ceylan
Woman (as Ebru Yapıcı)
Bahattin Serter
Nazlı Aydın
Engin Hepsev
Ercan Kesal
Aslı Orhun
Ahmet Bugay
Arif Aşçı
Cemal Gülas
Ahmet Özyurt
Erhan Ersoy
Hakan Kuldan
Ayhan Ergürsel
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Director / Writer / Producer
Distant Ratings & Reviews
IndieWire
Brandon Judell
"Distant," that's more like a warning than a title . . . . The two leads will eventually clash, but not enough to make this offering worthy of sitting through.
All Movie Guide
Josh Ralske
The tale has a deceptive, emotional complexity that builds to a surprisingly heartrending impact.
Filmcritic.com
Christopher Null
He'd love to mimic Antonioni and Ozu, but Ceylan still has much to learn about crafting quiet scenes
Seattle Times
Jeff Shannon
Deeply compassionate and frequently amusing, qualifying as a minor miracle of humanely observant filmmaking.
Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews
Dennis Schwartz
A startlingly quiet film that is buoyed by a droll humor, splendid visuals and bittersweet reflections into the human condition.
E! Online
E! Staff
It's bleak, yes, but it's beautiful in equal measure.
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A beautifully made, unapologetically artistic piece of work.
L.A. Weekly
Scott Foundas
The film's extraordinary shifts from windswept sorrow ... to deadpan comedy ... are uniquely, triumphantly their maker's own.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Ultimately, it becomes a movie about the feeling of being alive, the sensation of existence. It's a movie, in a way, about everything.
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
Straightforward, droll, brutally honest and arresting, if somewhat stately in progress.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
There is no simple sense of uplift in Distant. But there is an exhilaration to revealing the human condition, and Ceylan is ever on the lookout.
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
Unwanted guests have a benefit: They can remind us of our own dislikes and vulnerabilities, and help us come to terms (or not) with them.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The film takes place in Turkey, but its dynamic could be transplanted anywhere -- maybe to our own families.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
A Chekhovian tale of major artistic power.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Has much to say about solitude and friendship and just plain coping with life.
New York Times
Elvis Mitchell
Nuri Bilge Ceylan's wry, modest meditation on pettiness works on a minimalist scale.
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
Ceylan, who also served as cinematographer, frames the affecting, unstudied performances in gorgeously chosen shots and nonevents that sometimes teeter on the edge of comedy before knocking us breathless with their emotional power.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
A movie of quiet revelations that is itself quite surprising.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
The entire film is stitched together from a collection of long shots that stress the expansive emotional distance between the film's characters.
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
Long on melancholy and short on dramatic texture.
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