The Wild Pear Tree (official trailer)

Sinan (Aydin Doğu Demirkol), an aspiring writer, returns home after university hoping to scrape together enough money to publish his first novel. He wanders the town encountering old flames and obstinate gatekeepers and finds his youthful ambition increasingly at odds with the deferred dreams of his gambling-addict father (Murat Cemcir). As his own fantasies mingle with reality, Sinan grapples with the people and the place that have made him who he is.

Following in the great tradition of family dramas like Death of a Salesman and Long Day’s Journey Into Night, The Wild Pear Tree weaves an evocative tale of creative struggle and familial responsibility with inspired performances, sumptuous imagery and surprising bursts of humor. It’s one of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s most personal works to date, a film as rich, layered and uncompromising as the novel its headstrong hero is working to publish.

[milk_cow_blues]

This underrated film is an absolute masterpiece. One of the best five movies of the decade.

[LEE]

The scene where the actor comes out of exam hall the parents asking him about if the exam had ended reminds me of the same culture in india where parents wait for their children out of examhall. Nostalgic

[holygoalie]

probably one of the five best movies of the decade

[muka]

this ain't just a movie, this is an art tho.. NBC is the best director of europe that's fo'sho

[rubenskiii]

A Turkish friend recommend this movie to me years ago but never got arround to watching it, as faith has it me and this movie cross paths again. I am gonna watch it this time. It looks incredible.

[bmabs]

Watched this about two months ago or so. The best way to describe it would be like watching a book transform into a movie.

This was my first Ceylan movie. Definitely won't be the last.

[askarusin]

A very beautiful and intense movie. Wish my Dad was alive. He would read the book that I've written. Neither Mom nor Sister did.

Sinan is a lucky man.

[knorieworiebobsnor]

One of my favourite movies from 2018 that I saw.

[jfj]

Turkish movies are scored so musically brilliantly.

[sifta]

This movie is almost a different genre from most plot-driven films. It unfolds like a cinematic version of a great Russian novel — which could never be well translated to a movie version.
Although it moves slowly, the situations and topics are sophisticated and the scenes reveal life’s mysteries and paradoxes without the crutch of Western philosophical framing and in a way that seems more natural.

[Gambitheart]

Nuri deserves to win an Oscar sooner or later he is a true auteur.

[brassen]

Bu umut içinde bir derstir. Brezilya'dan teşekkür ederim 🌹

[nikkijubilant]

I LOVE this movie, sublime, deep yet so many people walked out of the theatre, at least 11. They did not understand...

[Graham]

The look of the grandfather is the same with İdris' look at the Sinan. They all become one and eachother. It's a disease that they can't escape. They all felt same disappointment when they saw their son in the well. Sinan will feel the same disappointment if his son fail to escape Çan, and finding his own unique identity within the similar, pea-like looking society of the Çan. Every Turkish child is doomed to live this dilemma. It's depressing and half of us doesn't survive this. We either hang our hopes just like Sinan did, and go with the flow of corrupt society or we literally hang ourselves to finish this misery. The people who can escape usually work for the well being of other countries.

[burhanyldz]

“ Bezelye taneleri gibi birbirine benzeyen bir sürü insan “

[AliBeratArslan]

Long ass movie but absolutely worth watching it

[ozerilhan]

The movie is about a son and a father's relationship. Sons anger, unfit wild nature comes from his immature, unhealthy relation with his father as he doesn't want to see him like that. And the father is living or better if we say surviving by expelling himself from society as his heart amd soul is full of regrets...

[royroy]

Watching this I was in depression for one day :(

[hepikro]

Film's endind scene that main character digs the well was totally shocking!

[marleenlievemariacelineaum]

In het begin traag op gang en het verhaal ontvouwt zich tot zoiets moois kostbaars. Heel stil van geworden