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Screening
Middle East Film Series | “The Wild Pear Tree”
Open To The Public
Sinan is a Turkish boy from the provinces who has just graduated from college and is trying to get his first novel published. Brash and provocative to the point of insolence, he is also one of cinema’s best-drawn embodiments of the European economic crisis.
Film Theater at the Rubenstein Arts Center 2020 Campus Drive Durham,
NC
27705
Description
The Wild Pear Tree (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2018, 188 min, Turkey, in Turkish with English subtitles, Color, DCP)
Sinan is a Turkish boy from the provinces who has just graduated from college and is trying to get his first novel published. He is aptly shown to be in a chrysalis stage between awkward hick (he disparagingly refers to his neighbors as “peasants”) and cultivated writer-about-town. Brash and provocative to the point of insolence, he is also one of cinema’s best-drawn embodiments of the European economic crisis that keeps youth unemployed and their future an out-of-focus question mark.
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