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‘A profoundly beautiful and moving meditation on loneliness whose essential seriousness does not preclude some tender comic moments’
‘Easily the best film in competition so far’
‘It really is funny, with a humour rooted in compassion for unhappiness, absurdity and the encroachment of old age... there are sight gags that are the work of tremendous comic talent.
It is a film of exquisite piquancy: a real masterpiece’
Peter Bradshaw - THE GUARDIAN (Cannes)
‘The best-received movie so far this festival’
‘A lovely and deceptively quiet film that explores themes of friendship and urban loneliness with considerable insight and lasting emotional resonance’
‘A marvellous tribute to the acting talents of Toprak’
Sukhdev Sandhu - THE DAILY TELEGRAPH (Cannes)
‘A real jewel, a truly beautiful film: touching, funny and bittersweet’
‘Shot in the manner of Tarkovsky, but brings off sweet and playful moments of silent comedy...
I could happily have watched it all afternoon’
Peter Bradshaw - THE GUARDIAN (Cannes)
‘Highly impressive... meditative... beautifully shot... one of those films you immediately want to see again: moody and haunting. It has a beautiful poker-faced sense of humour too’
Jonathan Romney - THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY (Cannes)
'This profoundly touching, comic and beautiful film from Turkey is one of the best films of the new decade'
'You can see it now and my advice is run don't walk'
'The story of this oddest of odd couples hook into your heart'
'It's heartbreakingly and yet often funny'
Peter Bradshaw - THE GUARDIAN
‘Perhaps the most accomplished piece of film-making in the festival... An unabashed art movie... Visually stunning, quietly wry, ultimately devastating’
SF Said - DAILY TELEGRAPH
‘With its laconic, faintly elliptical narrative style, its subtle but striking compositions, and its superb performances, the film speaks volumes both about masculinity and about modern life in the Western(ised) world’
‘...The blend of warm affection and wry scepticism... distinguishes the movie’
Geoff Andrew - TIME OUT
‘The young Turk whose ‘Distant’ won two major prizes in Cannes last May may be the most promising new filmmaker to emerge in years’
Geoff Andrew- TIME OUT
…’One of the most remarkable film-makers in the world at the moment.’
Fiachra Gibbons- GUARDIAN
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