About Dry Grasses
Film details
| Film Title | About Dry Grasses |
|---|---|
| Suitability | |
| Genre | |
| Length | 197mins |
| Year | 2023 |
| Country | France, Germany, Sweden, Turkey |
| Director | Nuri Bilge Ceylan |
| Actors | Deniz Celiloğlu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici, Ece Bağcı, Erdem Şenocak, Yüksel Aksu, Münir Can Cindoruk, Onur Berk Arslanoğlu, Yıldırım Gücük, Cengiz Bozkurt, S. Emrah Özdemir, Elif Ürse, Elit Andaç Çam, Nalan Kuruçim, Ferhat Akgün |
| Language | Turkish |
| AKA | Kuru Otlar Üstüne |
| Showings |
A young art teacher hopes to be transferred to Istanbul after completing his mandatory duty in a remote village school in Anatolia. After accusations of inappropriate contact with a student surface, his hopes of escape fade and he descends further into an existential crisis.
About Dry Grasses is as serious as you’d expect from Ceylan, but there’s also a self-reflective, playful angle to this one, and a seam of black humour that’s been missing from his recent films.
★★★★
Among the most brilliantly off-putting works to be featured at Cannes in recent years.
★★★★
This film, so apparently forbidding and opaque the way many Ceylan films initially are, has in fact something engrossing in its garrulous and wide-ranging quality: a literary quality in fact.
★★★★
