Sentences with phrase «wild pear tree»

Kore - eda topped the best screenplay category with 25 % of the vote, while «Burning» only received 10 % of the vote in the category, tying for second place with Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's Jury Prize - winner «Capernaum» and Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's three hour - plus drama «The Wild Pear Tree,» the last film to screen in competition this year.

Besides Spike Lee's blisteringly comical words in BLACKKKLANSMAN, Jia's ASH IS PUREST WHITE and maaaybe Nuri Bilge Ceylan's THE WILD PEAR TREE are potential spoilers.

Slow and surprisingly talky, the three hours of The Wild Pear Tree (Ahlat Agaci) do not exactly fly by, and the experience is similar to plunging into a long novel (the hero is a budding novelist) laced with philosophy, religion, politics and moral puzzles.

As I write this Thursday afternoon, we are still waiting to see two strong Palme contenders: The Wild Pear Tree by Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan, a Cannes favourite who took the top prize in 2014 with Winter Sleep; and Lebanese director Nadine Labaki's Capernaum, titled for a Biblical town where Jesus Christ is said to have performed miracles, which is getting good advance buzz for its story about an unhappy boy launching a lawsuit against the adults who vex him.

Cannes 2018: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's «Winter Sleep» won the Palme d'Or in 2014, but his new «The Wild Pear Tree» has plenty of the former's verbose sprawl with little of its gravitas and heft

(His new film, «The Wild Pear Tree,» plays in competition at Cannes 2018.)

This year it seemed as if the esteemed Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan had managed to walk between the raindrops of this out - with - the - old edict, as his new film, The Wild Pear Tree, was dropped into the line - up as a late edition and, rumour has it, with material excised by request of the selection committee.

Like Haneke's film, The Wild Pear Tree represents a serious attempt to grapple with the difficult issues of the day, and like it, The Wild Pear Tree demands that we meet the film on its terms, rather than making any compromise with our lazier viewing habits.

«The Wild Pear Tree» team (from left): Co-producer Fabian Gasmia, Medienboard's Teresa Hoefert De Turegano, producer Zeynep Atakan, director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Medienboard's Kirsten Niehuus, actor Murat Cemcir (Photo: Andre Mischke)

Among those pictures being feted in the garden of the Grand Hotel were two competition entries, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's «The Wild Pear Tree» and Alice Rohrwacher's «Happy as Lazzaro,» and Ulrich Koehler's «In My Room» and Sergei Loznitsa's «Donbass,» both in Un Certain Regard.

Among those pictures being feted in the garden of the Grand Hotel were two competition entries, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's «The Wild Pear Tree» and Alice Rohrwacher's -LSB-...]

«Shoplifters,» «The Wild Pear Tree,» «Cold War» and «Ash is Purest White» also performed strongly.

Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi) At War (Stéphane Brizé) Dogman (Matteo Garrone) Le livre d'images (Jean - Luc Godard) Netemo Sameteo (Asako I & II)(Ryūsuke Hamaguchi) Sorry Angel (Christophe Honoré) Girls of the Sun (Eva Husson) Ash Is Purest White (Jia Zhangke) Shoplifter (Hirokazu Kore - eda) Capernaum (Nadine Labaki) Burning (Lee Chang - dong) BlacKkKlansman (Spike Lee) Under the Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell) Three Faces (Jafar Panahi) Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski) Lazzaro Felice (Alice Rohrwacher) Yomeddine (A.B. Shawky) Leto (Kirill Serebrennikov) Un couteau dans le cœur (Yann Gonzalez) Ayka (Sergei Dvortsevoy) The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) OUT OF COMPETITION

Take for instance an early scene in The Wild Pear Tree, where a gust of wind blows a young woman's long hair all over the place.

The Wild Pear Tree is another towering cinematic experience from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

Not exact matches

Instead there is a predominance of white stinkwood, wild olive and white pear trees, which give it a character all its own, and in the world of botany, defies logic.