Uzak (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2002)

Less is quite often more in an ADHD world and Distant is a case in point, involving an existentially depressed photographer in Istanbul having to put up with the arrival of his country cousin, who has garbled notions of being able to find work there. Theirs is not a happy co-habitation. It would be hard to add more to a synopsis since very little actually happens, but the director's command of the small gesture and telling symbolic detail are masterly, and the Bosphorus has seldom looked as sombrely lustrous as it does here, the sun constantly straining to get through banks of wintry cloud as the characters see their dreams sail away.

7/10