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A Screening of Winter Sleep, Palme d'Or winner at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival and Turkish submission for consideration as Best Foreign Language Film for this year's Oscars. Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
Please note: This event has been rescheduled due to a technical failure during the originally scheduled time, Thursday, February 5th.
Please join us for a screening of Winter Sleep (Turkey, 2014), a film directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Complimentary pizza and soft drinks will be available starting at 5:30pm. The film will start at 5:45pm.
About the film:
"Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce.
In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities..."
-From the Cannes Film Festival
Click the following links for reviews:
The Guardian: Winter Sleep review – a powerful meditation upon guilt
Variety: Film Review: ‘Winter Sleep’
Roger Ebert: Reviews: Winter Sleep
Film runtime: 3 hours, 17 minutes.
Watch the trailer: