About Dry Grasses

Name: About Dry Grasses
Genre: Drama
Released: February 23, 2024
Duration: 197 min
Rating: 88
Cast: Deniz Celiloglu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici

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Memento Distribution | Release Date: February 23, 2024 | Not Rated

Starring: Deniz Celiloglu, Merve Dizdar, Musab Ekici

Summary: Samet, a young art teacher, is finishing his fourth year of compulsory service in a remote village in Anatolia. After a turn of events he can hardly make sense of, he loses his hopes of escaping the grim life he seems to be stuck in. Will his encounter with Nuray, herself a teacher, help him overcome his angst?

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 197 min

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Tim Grierson

Feb 22, 2024

The effortlessly orchestrated dialogue scenes are riveting, but what’s remarkable is that, no matter how talkative Samet and his cohorts are, they often don’t say what they mean. The characters argue politics, worldviews or how to handle the disturbing accusations leveled against Samet and Kenan at school, but their rhetorical jousting masks unspoken resentments and disappointments. Read full review

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Bilge Ebiri

Feb 23, 2024

We walk away from the film with a dark empathy for these people, and for ourselves. Read full review

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Tara Brady

Jul 25, 2024

The vigorous, masterful script, written by the director his wife and frequent collaborator Ebru Ceylan, counterpoints the extended runtime. The director says he could have made the film longer; remarkably, most viewers will agree. Read full review

Jake Coyle

Mar 1, 2024

There’s a profound, unresolvable melancholy to “About Dry Grasses” that’s hard to shake. Read full review

The Film Stage Leonardo Goi

May 30, 2023

One of the greatest mysteries behind Ceylan’s cinema is how his talk-heavy sprawls manage to escape the aloofness of the chamber dramas they so often unspool as. Grasses is another scintillating example of that paradox, a film in which chats do not unfurl so much as detonate. Read full review

The Observer (UK) Wendy Ide

Jul 29, 2024

About Dry Grasses tiptoes around the edge of being suffocatingly verbose, and there are scenes that could stand a tighter edit. Still, the meaty, novelistic writing and exceptional quality of the performances make for a rich and engrossing viewing experience. Read full review

Leslie Felperin

May 21, 2023

The movie goes downhill into predictable territory, finally landing in a soggy quagmire of talkiness and would-be profundity expressed in voiceover at the end. But at least the visuals are nice, with Ceylan’s signature use of snow-capped landscape and wide-angled lensing to the fore. Read full review

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