"If you're looking for an adultery- and revenge-fueled family melodrama so subdued that it keeps a hit-and-run fatality, cuckoldry, and murder entirely off screen, Three Monkeys is your movie and Nuri Bilge Ceylan your not-so-genre-inclined auteur." - Bill Weber

Stylish, ambitious... and yet, somehow, uninteresting. There are pacing issues and they are quite possibly to blame for my unengagement in the drama between the characters. Or perhaps it's the other way around?

Very "standard European film" if that makes sense, don't know how to describe what I mean really. Anyways, some pretty visuals and good enough. Milf's ringtone was hilarious.

Like the other Ceylan films I've seen, it's done very well with a style that appeals to me, but seems to lack something. It's an interesting story with interesting moments and interesting choices... but I can't help but feel a little "meh" about the whole thing. I don't know what Ceylan is driving at, and I'm not sure he knows either. I still like it, I just don't love it. I guess Ceylan is going to be one of those kind of directors for me.

great cinematography with a strangely tempting color palette but unnecessarily long silences and stares are simply boring... hatice aslan is disappointing in so many ways; can`t act, does not fit the movie and she is definitely a bad choice for a low socioeconomic level MILF character with her porcelaine teeth, stylishly cut hair and nice clothes...rifat sungar is brilliant by the way

detaylar (agacli yol, su sisesi, tren sesi) mekanlar

I suspect most film-makers could have told this tale in 20 minutes. But then, it wouldn't have had the soporific qualities Ceylan's film does, filled with interminable silences while characters stare moodily into space or at each other. On the plus side, it looks amazing, the frames become painterly scenes packed with detail. And the story is easy enough to follow, even if it leads nowhere. There are some poetic and expressive moments, but mostly all the silences and pauses are a chore to watch.

As with "Izganie", features long pauses that don't really push the story forward, and much like NathanDarko, I couldn't get into the drama (it's too bleak and trite to really appreciate it). There's a level of greatness that's fairly visible. You have to dig very deep though in order to embrace it, but if the director didn't lift a finger to ease that process, than why should I... I mean, wake up !!!

Outstanding Cinematography, but couldn´t get into that Drama.