Mongrel Media
MOVIE REVIEW
Winter Sleep (2014)
“Winter Sleep” crosses the tape at 196 minutes; long enough to watch all of “Once Upon a Time in Anatolia” and then revisit the first quarter of it all over again. Whether Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s recent running times are an indulgence, a tactic or a mistake — he himself says that he pays the matter no mind at all — it again allows him to divide a film into formidably gorgeous tectonic plates of narrative, grinding against each other at geological pace while the men and women traveling on them completely fail to understand each other.