Cinema Guild has bought U.S. distribution rights to Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s “The Wild Pear Tree,” a month after it premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Cinema Guild will release ...

The Wild Pear Tree is a film that stays with you for a while, long after viewing it. This three-hour long film follows Sinan (played by Aydın Doğu Demirkol), a recently graduated student, who ...

Forget the menacing length: “The Wild Pear Tree,” Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest sprawling feature, clocks in at just over three hours, but that’s been his average range for ...

Thematically “The Wild Pear Tree” fits perfectly into the director’s melancholy expanse of male disaffection, though his main character is younger than many of his protagonists, full of ...

The Wild Pear Tree is certainly long, but luckily it’s also fairly entertaining. I never thought I’d laugh this much during a Nuri Bilge Ceylan film.

Last week we saw a film from Pawel Pawlikowski that crossed continents and spanned decades and lasted a mere 84 minutes. With the exception of a devastating climax that skips a few years, the majority ...

“The Wild Pear Tree” lays bare the contradictions of Turkish society Religion, family, community, gender—all are surveyed in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s coming-of-age tale. Jan 30th 2019.

Life is frugal in The Wild Pear Tree, in other words, reminiscent of the endemic poverty in Victor Erice’s immortal Spanish film, El Espiritu de la Colmena (The Spirit of the Beehive) which was ...

Turkey’s submission for the next foreign-language Academy Awards, The Wild Pear Tree had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May You can save this article by registering for free here ...