The lovely substance is in the wit, the nuances, the rhythms, and Ceylan's own very fine colour camerawork.
Clouds of May(Mayıs Sıkıntısı)
✭ ✭ ✭ ✭ Read critic reviews
Turkey · 1999
2h 10m
Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Starring Emin Ceylan, Muzaffer Özdemir, Fatma Ceylan, Mehmet Emin Toprak
Genre Comedy, Drama
Add to Watchlist
Please login to add films to your watchlist.
This is a movie within a movie, about a director, Muzaffer, who goes back to his hometown to make a film using a cast of local people (based on the director Ceylan's first feature, Kasaba). While Muzaffer is around, his mother complains about simple health problems, his father is in a legal fight against the government for his land, his cousin leaves his job to help Muzaffer who promises to find him work in Istanbul, and his little cousin Ali tries to carry an egg in his pocket for forty days so that he'll get the watch of his dreams. In the meantime, they form the cast for Muzaffer's movie as well.
We hate to say it, but we can't find anywhere to view this film.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
The New York Times by A.O. Scott
The film's shapeliness and depth are not immediately apparent; for much of its running time, it feels diffuse and anecdotal, but in retrospect you appreciate the subtlety and heft of the story, as well as the tricky profundity of Mr. Ceylan's approach.
Though it moves more slowly than the tortoise prominently featured in one sequence, Clouds of May is the kind of film that creeps up on the patient viewer.
Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington
This subtle, beautifully shot film is a gently ironic study of the relationship between a Turkish filmmaker, who has returned to his country home to make an independent movie, and his elderly father, whom he has recruited as an actor. [13 Oct 2000, p.L]
Users who liked this film also liked
Fight Club
A man, thoroughly dissatisfied with his life, finds new meaning when he forms a fight club with soap salesman Tyler Durden.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany, United States • 1999
- Director David Fincher
- Cast Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf, Jared Leto, Zach Grenier
- Genre Drama
- Available on Hulu, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Un Chien Andalou
(Un chien andalou)
A classic avant-garde surrealist film from the cooperation of director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dali.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- France • 1929
- Director Luis Buñuel
- Cast Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Robert Hommet, Marval
- Genre Fantasy, Horror
- Available on Fandor Amazon Channel, FlixFling, Fandor, Tubi TV
The Bank Job
The true story of a heist gone wrong... in all the right ways.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, United States, Australia • 2008
- Director Roger Donaldson
- Cast Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows, Stephen Campbell Moore, Daniel Mays, James Faulkner, Andrew Brooke
- Genre Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Distant
(Uzak)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Turkey • 2002
- Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Cast Muzaffer Özdemir, Emin Toprak, Zuhal Gencer, Nazan Kirilmis, Feridun Koc, Fatma Ceylan
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
To the Devil a Daughter
...and suddenly the screams of a baby born in Hell!
- ✭ ✭
- United Kingdom, West Germany • 1976
- Director Peter Sykes
- Cast Richard Widmark, Christopher Lee, Nastassja Kinski, Honor Blackman, Denholm Elliott, Michael Goodliffe
- Genre Horror
- Available on Peacock Premium, Peacock Premium Plus, Night Flight Plus, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, YouTube, Pluto TV, Shout! Factory TV, Hoopla
Diary of a Lost Girl
(Tagebuch einer Verlorenen)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Germany • 1929
- Director G.W. Pabst
- Cast Louise Brooks, André Roanne, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp, Vera Pawlowa, Franziska Kinz
- Genre Drama
- Available on Kino Film Collection, Google Play Movies, Amazon Video, YouTube, Fandango At Home, Kanopy
The Small Town
(Kasaba)
The story of a family living in the rural countryside of Turkey told from two children’s perspectives.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Turkey • 1997
- Director Nuri Bilge Ceylan
- Cast Mehmet Emin Toprak, Havva Saglam, Cihat Bütün, Fatma Ceylan, Emin Ceylan
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Happy Days
(Neşeli Günler)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Turkey • 1978
- Director Orhan Aksoy
- Cast Münir Özkul, Adile Naşit, Şener Şen, Mürüvvet Sim Caymaz, Ayşen Gruda, Ahmet Sezerel
- Genre
- Available on No streaming locations found.
The Teacher's Diary
(คิดถึงวิทยา)
I miss someone who I have never met before.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Thailand • 2014
- Director Nithiwat Tharathorn
- Cast Sukrit Wisetkaew, Chermarn Boonyasak, Sukollawat Kanarot, Chutima Teepanat, Witawat Singlampong, Maneeratana Sricharoen
- Genre Drama, Romance
- Available on Rakuten Viki, Apple TV
Frenzy
(Abluka)
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Turkey, France, Qatar • 2015
- Director Emin Alper
- Cast Mehmet Özgür, Berkay Ateş, Tülin Özen, Müfit Kayacan, Ozan Akbaba, Yavuz Pekman
- Genre Drama
- Available on No streaming locations found.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
History has a way of repeating itself. Stories have a way of coming true.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, United States • 2019
- Director André Øvredal
- Cast Zoe Colletti, Dean Norris, Michael Garza, Gabriel Rush, Gil Bellows, Natalie Ganzhorn
- Genre Horror, Thriller
- Available on Netflix, Netflix basic with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube
Joker
A failed stand-up comedian is driven insane, turning to a life of crime in chaos in Gotham City.
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Canada, United States • 2019
- Director Todd Phillips
- Cast Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz, Frances Conroy, Brett Cullen, Shea Whigham
- Genre Crime, Thriller, Drama
- Available on Amazon Prime Video, TNT, TBS, Max Amazon Channel, Max, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Spectrum On Demand
Midsommar
Let the festivities begin.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- United States, Sweden • 2019
- Director Ari Aster
- Cast Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Will Poulter, Vilhelm Blomgren, Isabelle Grill
- Genre Horror, Drama, Mystery
- Available on Max Amazon Channel, Max, Apple TV, Google Play Movies, Fandango At Home, Amazon Video, Microsoft Store, YouTube, Kanopy
A Tale of Three Sisters
(Kız Kardeşler)
Three sisters are sent back to their father in a poor village in central Anatolia after failing in affluent foster families.
- ✭ ✭ ✭ ✭
- Turkey, Germany, Netherlands • 2019
- Director Emin Alper
- Cast Cemre Ebuzziya, Ece Yüksel, Helin Kandemir, Kayhan Açıkgöz, Müfit Kayacan, Hilmi Özçelik
- Genre Drama
- Available on Google Play Movies, YouTube
Money Trap
(Organize İşler: Sazan Sarmalı)
- ✭ ✭ ✭
- Turkey • 2019
- Director Yılmaz Erdoğan
- Cast Yılmaz Erdoğan, Kıvanç Tatlıtuğ, Ezgi Mola, Atakan Çelik, Bensu Soral, Safa Sarı
- Genre Comedy, Crime, Action
- Available on Apple TV, Google Play Movies, YouTube