The Wild Pear Tree

Another visually rich chamber piece from Nuri Bilge Ceylan that builds elaborate rhetorical set pieces of astonishing density.

A lyrical, tremendously acted drama of prodigal fathers and sons

The Turkish director’s unhurried, magnificently acted film follows a bumptious young writer who returns home to face bittersweet truths

“The Wild Pear Tree”: Nuri Bilge Ceylan Gets Personal

Pear Tree is nothing if not demanding.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s film takes a leisurely approach to narrative that’s both intensely dialogical and transfixingly visual.

Generations collide in a coming-of-age story set in Turkey from Cannes Palme d’Or laureate Nuri Bilge Ceylan.

The unapologetic, sometimes heavy-handed literariness of The Wild Pear Tree is leavened by hints of grim comedy and sharp, if subtle, social criticism.

The Palme d’Or-winning director of Winter Sleep returns with another long, talky drama

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Wordy, Windy, Wearying ‘The Wild Pear Tree’

Cannes 2018: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “Winter Sleep” won the Palme d’Or in 2014, but his new “The Wild Pear Tree” has plenty of the former’s verbose sprawl with little of its gravita...