Event

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

APRIL 6 through 12, FRIDAY through THURSDAY AT 7PM (PLUS SATURDAY & SUNDAY AT 4PM)
Seattle Premiere!
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
(Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011, Turkey, Blu-ray, 150 min) The plot of this co-winner of the 2011 Cannes Grand Prix is simple: a group of men search for a corpse. But the story is not so straightforward. Set against the haunted and monotonous landscape of the Anatolian steppe, the task of finding the body is cloaked in lies, mystery and a growing unease. The film dips into both the road movie and police genres, but the investigation within the film is purely figurative, unearthing questions of human existence.

"In this, as in all of Ceylan's films, it's the distractions and elisions, not the official stories, that carry the existential weight of the days of our lives." Ella Taylor, NPR

"Ceylan's mesmerizing existential drama takes its time establishing the players and bringing their inner lives into focus. It's cinema as autopsy." Scott Tobias, The A.V. Club