I strongly recommend the Turkish film Winter Sleep. I simply think it is a masterpiece. Even though it is a quiet film, time passes without you noticing it. You are totally engulfed. The film lasts more than 3 hours, but don’t let that deter you.
The film is about the aging actor Aydin who runs a small hotel in Cappadocia on the deserted Anatolian highlands in Turkey. He is married to a much younger woman who seemingly despises him. Aydin’s sister also lives with the married couple which also causes problems for Aydin.
Aydin passes his time by writing articles to the local paper and else lives off the fortune which his deceased father left him amongst which are some houses that he rents out. It would be fair to say that Aydin belongs to the more affluent part of the population in an otherwise poor area.
The plot is quite hard to summarize, but the film particularly focuses on the marriage which has become just as frozen as the landscape outside the hotel, the problematic relationship between Aydin and his sister, the escalating contradiction between an affluent landlord and poor tenants but primarily on an aging man in crisis.
The film is simply fantastic because nothing is what you think it is – sympathy and perspective change all the time. And you are left with a bundle of unanswered questions, so my humble advice is that you watch the film with others as it will surely cause many interpretations and discussions.
Please watch Winter Sleep.
The official trailer to the excellent Turkish film Winter Sleep
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