Movie Review: The colossal melancholy of Ceylan’s ‘About Dry Grasses’ | Hollywood
Nuri Bilge Ceylan makes long films, by movie standards, but short ones by Russian literature standards. HT Image There may be no filmmaker more consciously working in a novelistic tradition. The Turkish director counts reading “Crime and Punishment” as a formative experience. His Palme d'Or-winning 2014 film “Winter Sleep” adapted a pair of Chekhov short stories. But regardless of any direct correlations, Ceylan's films — colossal, existential, talky — reach for (and often attain) an enveloping vastness that…