Uzak

Uzak

2002
Drama
1h 50m
A photographer who is haunted by the feeling that the gap between his life and his ideals is growing finds himself obliged to put up in his apartment a young relative who has left behind his village looking for a job aboard a ship in Istanbul to go abroad.
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Uzak

2002
Drama
1h 50m
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Rated 01 Apr 2019
80
88th
"Okay enough Tarkovsky for today, now let's watch some tities."
Rated 29 Apr 2020
90
90th
Detachment becomes the mending process for life and it's loneliness. Whether shaped from sorrow, or ignorant with bliss, both are equally sad. As one revisits, builds, and accepts relationships, small lusts and tiny anxieties heighten their impulse. It may seem like one yearns to be alone after all, but it's only a matter of time before everything disappears and life's deepest concerns haunt again. A film worth empathizing.
Rated 03 Jan 2007
75
70th
Decent minimalist cinema in the footsteps of master Tarkovsky. While the performances of actors (especially for the spoken parts) are highly amateur, the beautiful cinematography and the deep, resonating struggle of the film's premise make it a rich and poetic experience.
Rated 10 May 2009
100
99th
11 mayis 09. 01:28am. & ilk izledigim zaman 13-14 yaslarindaydim. izledigim ilk minimal filmdi. bir saat sonunda sikilmistim. simdi izleyince icim burkuldu. aglamak istiyorum...
Rated 06 Jul 2009
83
77th
Ceylan makes no bones about his influences: one of the characters talks about wanting "to make films like Tarkovsky" and even watches Stalker at one point (and in a comedic moment, switches to a porn tape after his visiting cousin leaves the room). And the film does run at a slower pace, although not extreme as Tarr or Tsai. Like Tsai, Ceylan touches on issues of isolation and longing, and does so with long takes of people in stasis, occasional humor and a sense of voyeurism.
Rated 25 Dec 2010
75
39th
The hardest film to rate. One half of me wants to give it 100 - because the film develops scene by scene as a procession of beautifully constructed portraits of its two protagonists. Furthermore, the mood is delivered perfectly, with only the tip of the iceberg is shown to the viewer, and little dialogue or action to hasten the slow layering of the plot. As a work of art, it's perfect. Unfortunately, as a film, I just couldn't enjoy it due to the inaction and apathy of the plot.
Rated 18 May 2013
22
70th
Isolated souls stalk Istanbul for companionship yet are always 'caught' before they can meaningfully close the distance. An acutely lonely film.
Rated 07 Aug 2014
75
79th
Yakın hissedeceğimiz bir film olmuş.
Rated 23 Dec 2016
86
84th
It's slow, but it's a realistic kind of slow where there's always something to look at or look ahead to. It's about the pace of the characters, not the audience. The overall film manages to cover quite a bit of ground and provide an interesting portrait of two different people and the intersection of their lives, their connection and disconnection from each other and society at large.
Rated 28 Mar 2020
95
98th
The trap of the present. Two men in limbo between ghosts of future and ghosts of past. Heartbreaking stillness.
Rated 18 Nov 2007
79
61st
The film achieves moments of brilliance, but they are far too few to break the tedium of the everyday that the film aims to portray. The film is, as per its namesake, the essence of distant. But there is almost no emotional intensity to pull it through. It's a visually beautiful film, but it's too unremarkable in way of concept and execution.
Rated 05 Apr 2010
88
92nd
people, city, ships, everything is so apathetically and equally distant from each other, that the movie feels like a cinematographic equivalent of a Voronoi diagram.
Rated 12 Jun 2010
72
78th
On weakness, on cowardice. A reproachful, answerless gaze. Watch at a reasonable volume, and not when you're tired.
Rated 18 Jan 2011
73
79th
Very sparse and leisurely, Distant is not for everyone but effective and rewarding to the viewer with a good attention span. Ceylan's ambient style is noticeably informed by his background in still photography. The text reminded me of Satyajit Ray's work, because it is parsimonious but otherwise naturalistic, with a very subtle psychological subtext, and because of the themes of alienation and of how personal finance and social standing affect everyday life and human interactions.
Rated 07 Feb 2011
30
78th
"The entire film is stitched together from a collection of long shots that stress the expansive emotional distance between the film's characters." - Ed Gonzalez
Rated 26 Oct 2011
90
74th
gorsel mukemmeliyet (kar altinda istanbul) imgeler (isik kapama, fare, sigara)
Rated 23 Jun 2012
36
10th
The film has some very intriguing cinematography, making interesting use of silhouettes and in one shot a downed ship. I still had to fight and fight hard to stay engaged in the film, and I left feeling like I didn't understand the characters any better than when the film started, nor did I perceive a real transformation within them.
Rated 29 Aug 2012
100
83rd
love this movie. nothing really happens in a really beautiful way... makes me want to go back to istanbul..
Rated 08 Aug 2013
6
44th
Bleak and painfully slow - It effectively creates a sense of human isolation and loneliness but it was quite difficult to stay engaged with the characters and action (lack of)
Rated 16 May 2014
2
17th
based on this and ONCE UPON A TIME ceylan is a little overwrought for my tastes, but this one is alleviated a little by some genuinely funny moments of droll humour between the contrasting leads.
Rated 21 Aug 2014
80
78th
A visually astonishing one-sentence-serenade: "I was somewhat distant to you because of my emotions."
Rated 24 Aug 2016
65
22nd
21 Agost 2016 - Sembla que intenta explicar que els fets que transcorren, però no acabo d'extreure'n gaire més que una atmosfera deprimida, solitària i despesperançada. Els personatges s'allunyen dels altres abans que puguin dir-se res. Hi havia enquadraments bonics, els personatges ben posats en els entorns.
Rated 25 Jan 2018
88
98th
just best for inside for stuck man
Rated 20 Mar 2019
77
62nd
All we have left is abject despair..... A devestatingly sad film that has snippets of humour to stop your heart from freezing.
Rated 08 Sep 2020
90
75th
This is the book definiton of autobiography to me. Ceylan reflected his loneliness through Mahmut.At the same time he shared his thoughts on a universal concept which is individual loneliness modernism brought to our lives. One of the remarkable scene that stayed in my mind is the fight scene between Mahmut and Yusuf. Mahmut was ignoring his past he forgot that he was coming from a village in Anatolia. Yusuf was a reminder of his past. Seeing the growing outrage in Mahmut was convenient.
Rated 20 Feb 2021
81
78th
Ceylan is providing more evidence who good filmmaker he is. Uzak is very much realistic movie, how fate brought together two very different individuals. Director Ceylan is not using any side effects to make a special atmosphere, camera does all the work. Great movie.
Rated 03 Mar 2021
80
78th
Genel olarak çok iyi fotoğraflara sahip, vurucu, iyi bir filmdi. 80 çakıp geçiyorum. Sadece, kadının kürtaj meselesinin anlatıldığı sahneyi çok amatörce buldum. Sanırım Ceylan’ın erken dönem işlerinden biri olduğu için. Şimdi olsa o sahneyi o şekilde çekmeyeceğine eminim. Eşe dosta tavsiye edilir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’ı yeni işlerinden tanıyanlara da “abi asıl kasaba üçlemesi çok iyiydi” denilerek şekil yapılır.
Rated 21 Jan 2023
85
82nd
Switching off Tarkovsky to get your rocks off, now THAT'S cinema
Rated 13 Dec 2023
66
32nd
I get what they were going for here, but it's a little bleak and slow for me and I couldn't really get into it. Well done, though.

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