The Turkish director’s unhurried, magnificently acted film follows a bumptious young writer who returns home to face bittersweet truths The Wild Pear Tree is a gentle, humane, beautifully made and ...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The Wild Pear Tree, which premiered this year in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, was selected as Turkey‘s submission into this year’s Foreign Language Film Oscar race. It ...

With “Winter Sleep,” Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan signaled a shift in style, increasing the importance of extended dialogues to the visually rich chamber pieces he plays out on grand stages. “The ...

Early on in “The Wild Pear Tree,” a rich and ruminative new movie from the Turkish writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, there is a bracingly sharp, infuriating exchange — a small masterpiece of ...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's story of a young writer struggling to find the money necessary to publish a novel, 'The Wild Pear Tree,' was announced Friday as Turkey's submission in the best foreign language ...

A callery pear tree’s beauty is deceptive. There’s no denying the tree’s showy white flowers are eye-catching when they begin blooming in early spring. However, underneath those pretty blossoms lurks ...

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 film ...

In this blurry week of Jussie Smollett, Donald Trump (it’s every week with that guy) and idly rampant Oscars speculation, the mere existence of “The Wild Pear Tree” seems absurd. The Turkish director ...

A YOUNG man approaches two imams picking fruit on a dusty road in rural Turkey. After friendly greetings, they get to talking: the imams reveal that they have just attended a lavish wedding, and their ...

If you have to steal, be honest about it. Be like Steven Knight, the writer and director of “Serenity,” who, when it comes to a big fishing scene, doesn’t mess around. He goes straight to “Jaws” and ...