Watch: Trailer for Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Three Hours-Plus Palme d’Or Winner ‘Winter Sleep’
Recipient of the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Winter Sleep” has drawn praise for its intimate look into the psyche of a hotel owner, his family and their perils.
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Ceylan scored big in past Cannes festivals — receiving the Grand Prix award in 2011 for “Once Upon A Time in Anatolia” and in 2002 for “Distant.”
Here is the Cannes Film Festival’s synopsis: Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities…
Starring Haluk Bilginer, Melisa Sözen and Demet Akbag, “Winter Sleep” will see a release in theaters this fall, just in time for awards season. Adopt Films opens it December 19 in select theaters.
