Synopsis
Aydın, a hotel owner and a retired actor in rural Turkey navigates conflicts within the relationships with his wife, sister and existence.
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Cast
- Haluk BilginerAydın
- Melisa SözenNihal
- Demet AkbağNecla
- Ayberk PekcanHidayet
- Serhat Kılıçİmam Hamdi
- Tamer LeventSuavi
- Nejat İşlerİsmail
- Nadir SarıbacakLevent
- Mehmet Ali NuroğluMüşteri
- Gamze KuşMisafir 7
Recommendations
- 100
Variety
Nuri Bilge Ceylan is at the peak of his powers with Winter Sleep, a richly engrossing and ravishingly beautiful magnum opus that surely qualifies as the least boring 196-minute movie ever made. - 91
IndieWire
While it doesn't always earn its heft, Winter Sleep is both subdued and rich in details, its plot growing slowly over a series of extensive conversations. It's a robust, challenging experience he's been building toward with his previous features, as well as an adventurous step above them. - 88
Slant Magazine
Staring deep into the darkness of an apparently static character, Nuri Bilge Ceylan again exhibits his gift for making interesting stories out of predetermined plots, locating small eddies of change in the midst of eternally fixed dynamics. - 80
CineVue
With a richness of characterisation usually reserved for hefty novels, each shot in Winter Sleep glows like a symbol, whilst each digression is almost a short story in itself. - 80
The Guardian
In fits and starts, this is a stunning picture. At its best, Winter Sleep shows Ceylan to be as psychologically rigorous, in his way, as Ingmar Bergman before him. - 80
The Hollywood Reporter
The final half-hour is a joy to watch, as turning points follow in rapid succession. - 80
The Telegraph
This is a beautiful, bold, intently serious film. - 80
Time Out London
When the film gets outdoors, it soars, and Ceylan continues to dig with acute intelligence into the dark corners of everyday human behaviour.
