The Stranger, March 15th, 2007
A Man of the World The Enviable Melancholy of Nuri Bilge Ceylan by Charles Mudede Climates dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan Northwest Film Forum THE LOVERS ROAM the ruins of an ancient Mediterranean civilization. The remaining pillars and walls of a dead temple support an invisible entablature. One lover, a middle-aged professor, is photographing the columns, which are fluted and topped with convolutes. The other lover is watching the professor from a hill-top. The area around them is arid and the shrubs and grass are dying for water, dying under a sun that burns in the sky like some furious god th...
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