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 'Ceylan’s handling of landscape and décor throughout draws comparison with those masters of alienation, Michelangelo Antonioni and Theo Angelopoulos... this immensely moving film'
David Parkinson - EMPIRE
'Nuri Bilge Ceylan is special…Ceylan stands out as a world-class artist of considerable and distinctive talents…creating remarkably assured works of true humanity and great poetic resonance. Boasting a deliciously droll melancholy wit (think Keaton); a vivid sense of time and place and a self-reflexive interest in metaphysics and form (think Kiarostami); luminous natural imagery (Malick, maybe); and an acute awareness of how individuals are affected by social change (Edward Yang, say), Ceylan’s three features, taken together, constitute one of the most impressive achievements of the last decade- all the more extraordinary given that he works with skeletal crews, producing scripting, shooting and editing himself. In short, he is a consummate auteur'
Geoff Andrew - NFT Programme, May 2004
'UZAK climaxes a trilogy which… is a modern masterwork'
'A highlight of last year’s Cannes competition'
'A wryly comic portrait of the crankiness of solitary living'
Jonathan Romney - SIGHT AND SOUND
 '… A town-mouse-country-mouse tale of heft, humour and humanity…'
'Sad and funny, Ceylan’s film encompasses the vexations of home-sharing, the agonies of family loyalty, the vitiating existential vigil that is unemployment, and the comedy of those everyday domestic dramas that seem undramatic only to someone too far away to see. Or perhaps to someone too close to understand – before they knock him off his feet – the potentially seismic consequences of the quotidian, the accidental, the serendipitous'
Nigel Andrews - FINANCIAL TIMES
'Superlatives are entirely warranted for immensely assured Turkish arthouse drama UZAK'
Tom Dawson - BBCi films (website)
'UZAK is a film that I admire more than I can say. It is one of the best movies of the year, perhaps of many years- the work of a brilliant film-maker.'
Peter Bradshaw - THE GUARDIAN
'Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s film is a graceful study of two cousins'
'In its quiet way, it is head-clearingly poignant. Every scene deepens our understanding of the characters and nothing is falsely smoothed away. The film’s melancholy is affecting because it feels truthful, and one reason it feels truthful is that it is broken by occasional moments of comedy.'
Edward Porter - THE SUNDAY TIMES (CULTURE)
'…an extraordinary film by a director who is one of the most vital new discoveries of European cinema. I’ve seen UZAK three times now, and it just gets richer and richer. For my money, it’s a masterpiece, and if you need your faith restored in the possibility of thinking, feeling, grown-up cinema, UZAK is not to be missed.'
Jonathan Romney, THE INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
No. 1 'Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan pulls off the difficult trick of making a movie that’s depressing but funny, bleak but handsome, and uneventful but engaging. It’s an odd-couple movie like no other.'
FILM PICK OF THE WEEK - GUARDIAN GUIDE
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