About Dry Grasses
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Turkey,
2023
The latest existential epic from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia) is a masterclass in moral and philosophical inquiry. Nestled away in snowy, isolated Anatolia, public-school art teacher Samet (Deniz Celiloğlu) yearns to leave the sleepy village for cosmopolitan Istanbul. He finds a silver lining in Nuray (Merve Dizdar), a fellow teacher and firebrand who forces him to confront what he can’t readily accept. Using hypnotic long takes and other bold formal choices to convey the murky motives of its Dostoevskian protagonist, About Dry Grasses proves Ceylan to be one of cinema’s most incisive investigators of the human condition.
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