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The Wild Pear Tree (Ahlat Agaci)
In a dramatic story about a young aspiring writer, he decided to return to his native village where his father lives. When the young man returned to his village, he was surprised that his father was steeped in many debts that might have stopped the young man from his career.
1934 in Zonguldak, Turkey
January 4, 1980 in Izmir, Turkey
1992 in Cyprus
1977 in Izmit, Turkey
1953 in Istanbul, Turkey
December 11, 2018
This is a quiet, often beautiful and powerful film that resonates with the viewer long after the credits roll.
December 04, 2018
It's a wealth of flowering expression on the intimate subject of loss.
December 05, 2018
In its absorbing to and fro of mood and dialogue, The Wild Pear Tree brilliantly conjures the moments when people at odds with each other can suddenly connect.
January 02, 2019
The Wild Pear Tree is an extremely dense, rich, challenging, lengthy movie.
December 10, 2018
The Wild Pear Tree is a humane masterpiece that slowly creeps up on you, beautifully made and magnificently acted.
November 05, 2018
Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan looks at his country through the prism of a grim coming-of-age tale stripped of lyricism and joy.
December 23, 2018
The Turkish auteur's new work is expansive in length, but in this instance it also has the spark of (contrarian) youth and a prickly sense of humour.
November 25, 2018
An Eastern European version of The Graduate - if The Graduate were dour, without sex and three hours long.
May 21, 2018
A philosophical journey through the mind of an aspiring artist trying to figure out who he is and where he belongs.
May 21, 2018
Ceylan may not be a filmmaker who compromises his style, but with The Wild Pear Tree, he manages to inject familiar emotions into a movie that's all about wrestling creative ambitions into a relatable whole.
November 05, 2018
In his 2014 Palme d'Or winner, Ceylan unpacked thorny issues of ethics and morality with a surgeon's steady patience; he employs a similar approach here, only the territory is much less fertile.
November 23, 2018
The Wild Pear Tree brilliantly illuminates the gap in life between what is desired and what is achieved, but the metaphorical light seeps into the frame rather than fully exposing it.

