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Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Directed by
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Not Rated
2011
2h 43m
[Drama](/on-demand/category/drama), [Crime](/on-demand/category/crime)
7.8
92%
74%
7.5
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A group of men set out in search of a dead body in the Anatolian steppes.
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Cast of Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Muhammet Uzuner
Doktor Cemal
Yılmaz Erdoğan
Komiser Naci
Taner Birsel
Savcı Nusret
Ahmet Mümtaz Taylan
Şoför Arap Ali
Fırat Tanış
Kenan
Ercan Kesal
Muhtar / Writer
Erol Eraslan
Murder Victim Yaşar
Burhan Yıldız
Suspect Ramazan
Murat Kılıç
Police Officer İzzet
Şafak Karali
Courthouse Clerk Abidin
Emre Şen
Sergeant Önder
Cansu Demirci
Mukhtar's Daughter Cemile
Uğur Arslanoğlu
Courthouse Driver Tevfik
Nihan Okutucu
Yaşar's Wife Gülnaz
Kubilay Tunçer
Autopsy Technician Şakir
Salih Ünal
Hospital Cook Hamit
Aziz İzzet Biçici
Restaurant Owner Kazım
Celal Acaralp
Pharmacist Saim
Mehmet Eren Topçak
Hamam Scrubber
Ufuk Karali
Hospital Attendant Sıtkı
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Ratings & Reviews
The New Republic
Stanley Kauffmann
Ceylan's own growing reputation will, I hope, continue to grow. He uses the realistic film as an avenue to what lies around and beyond the realism.
Laramie Movie Scope
Robert Roten
This is a very slow-moving movie, but it also has its attractions, such as its beautiful cinematography by Gkhan Tiryaki, particularly the wide angle shots showing the vastness of the Turkish landscape.
Movie Metropolis
Christopher Long
The literal "once upon a time" of a series of disillusioned men who no longer think about the future because they obsess over the past.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
It runs 157 minutes, and I can't say you don't feel them. You do - but in the way you would, reading a very good book in an uncomfortable chair.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
A movie of such dark, smoldering intensity that it's easy to forget that half of it takes place in near darkness.
Los Angeles Times
Sheri Linden
A police procedural as existential inquiry, set in a remote dreamscape of mystery and foreboding.
HollywoodChicago.com
Brian Tallerico
Mannered, deliberate film (some might say SLOW) that somehow gains accumulated power through its director's incredible eye for composition and appreciation for the beauty of cinema.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Ceylan doesn't slap us with big dramatic moments, but allows us to live along with his characters as things occur to them.
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
It is colossally, memorably and audaciously boring, but if you stick with it - and I am not advising this - something may happen.
Variety
Justin Chang
Ceylan is as calculatedly withholding a storyteller as ever, and as one might expect, Anatolia never comes right out and explains itself, though the men's free-ranging conversations suggest the film has much on its mind.
IndieWire
Eric Kohn
As a procedural, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia implicates the audience along with its characters and the mental workout continues long after the credits roll.
The Hollywood Reporter
Deborah Young
A long, slow haul but for the willing, a haunting journey into the heart of darkness in Turkish Anatolia.
New York Daily News
Joe Neumaier
Gorgeous to look at, intriguing to think about and, at times, hard to sit through.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Ceylan's mesmerizing existential drama takes its time establishing the players and bringing their inner lives into focus. It's cinema as autopsy.
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
A subtle, gorgeous and mysterious allegory that may be Ceylan's masterwork to date.
NPR
Ella Taylor
Turn the movie this way, and it's a police procedural that's tragicomically heavy on minutiae while slyly suggesting that official evidence always lies. Turn it that way, and it's an existential fairy tale set in a nocturnal netherworld.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Patient viewers will be rewarded, as long as they pay attention.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
A metaphysical road movie about life, death and the limits of knowledge, "Once Upon a Time in Anatolia" has arrived just in time to cure the adult filmgoer blues.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
157-minute police procedural at once sensuous and cerebral, profane and metaphysical, "empty" and abundant, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia is closer to the Antonioni of L'Avventura, and it elevates the 52-year-old director to a new level of achievement.
Slant Magazine
Andrew Schenker
Nuri Bilge Ceylan has to be the least kinetic of working filmmakers--and not simply in the sense of static camerawork or lack of narrative momentum.
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