Bir Zamanlar Anadolu'da (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)

Once Upon a Time in Anatolia revolves around a group of policemen searching for a buried body on the Anatolian plains with the perpetrator of the murder in question. Realism is the key note here, with the story being based on actual events: their progress is slow and slipshod, and their conversations in the middle of the night on issues from bureaucracy and family to yoghurt naturalistically undramatic and frequently amusing for the incongruity between their grim task and what mostly preoccupies their thoughts instead. The snail-like pace of the film, with little happening in over two and a half hours, does however make for somewhat of an endurance test, even for a tolerant viewer.

6/10