Winter Sleep : Nuri Bilge Ceylan
It’s better to express the last impression first. I am stunned thinking about two strange sides of “ Winter Sleep ”, 2014 [Kis Uykusu] by Turkish celebrated film director Nuri Bilge Ceylan . One is its narrative form. I was in a complete immersion in reading Bengali author Rabindranath’s novels last month, all of them are dialogue driven structures which have made me a bit drained but I succeeded in completing my journey of reading Rabindranath. Years ago, I started to watch this Winter Sleep because that time I was keenly interested in Turkish arts and literature because of Orhan Pamuk. But I could not sustain exceeding 40 minutes over as its slow pace and overloaded conversations among characters. Today when I started watching it in the morning, I could not leave it. Maybe Rabindranath’s narrative techniques have put a deep impression on me about which I am not aware of. Though many say he got the style from Chekhov and Dostoyevsky, for me it’s Rabindranath. The se...