The legend of the Croisette: the slow and pure cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Nuri Bilge Ceylan likes to take her time. The Turkish director is one of the greatest living practitioners of slow cinema. The ethos of cinema – pioneered by Russian author Andrei Tarkovsky and taken up by the likes of Theo Angelopoulos, Albert Serra, Béla Tarr, Kelly Reichardt and Lav Diaz – avoids rapid editing and (…)