Kasaba - Nuri Bilge Ceylan

primo film di Nuri Bilge Ceylan e già è cinema che vale.
si compone di quattro parti, con personaggi comuni, la prima parte è davvero indimenticabile, per i miei gusti un piccolo capolavoro,  gli alunni in classe col maestro, in una giornata invernale, sembra non succeda nulla, ma non puoi smettere di guardare un solo secondo.
e il resto del film, ambientato nelle varie stagioni, tra l'altro, merita di sicuro - Ismaele

QUI il film completo con i sottotitoli in inglese

…The aim of the film, indicated in the title of the film - kasaba meaning small town - is an apparently simple one. It sets out to capture what it is like to grow up in a small town, to want to leave a small town, to return to a small town and to have lived all your life in a small town. Kasaba uses one family to represent the conflicting hopes and ambitions as well as the sense of frustration and resignation this engenders, but Ceylan also manages to bring out deeper themes out of the characters and their environment, since even being part of a family living in a small town inevitably has wider considerations relating to ancestry, history and nationality…

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Told from the perspective of two children, and in four parts, which run parallel to seasons, KASABA describes relationships between members of a Turkish family in a small town. The first part is in a primary school where the family's 11-year-old daughter is a pupil. It shows the social environment to which she has to adopt, and its difficulties. She faces with her feeling of shame and some merciless clues of life...The second part is in spring. We see the girl with her brother, who is four years younger, and their journey to the cornfield where their family are waiting for them. As they pass through the countryside, they encounter the mysteries of nature and wildlife... In the third part the brother and sister witness the complexities and darkness of the adult world... The fourth part takes place at home. This is a tranquil sequence moving between reality and dream…

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…Kasaba est bien dans la cohérence de la thématique de l’auteur, et la première séquence, se déroulant dans une école primaire, et étrangement presque muette, annonce les non-dits et malaises caractéristiques des films postérieurs. Le récit, minimaliste, est découpé au rythme des quatre saisons et suit deux jeunes enfants témoins des conversations et préoccupations des adultes. Une trame autobiographique (le scénario est inspiré de souvenirs d’enfance et d’histoires contées par le père de Ceylan) sert de fil conducteur à cette évocation nostalgique qui aborde en filigrane les thèmes des racines historiques et géographiques mais aussi de la guerre, la mort, le travail ou l’honneur. La beauté digne de ce premier opus culmine avec la longue séquence d’un pique-nique nocturne, dans un décor sauvage et mystérieux, et au cours duquel les adultes discutent abondamment, laissant les enfants intérioriser les paroles, notamment lors de leurs jeux. Une ambiance à la Tchekhov donne alors à Kasaba une tournure suggestive saisissante. Cinéaste sensible ne versant jamais dans la sensiblerie, Nuri Bilge Ceylan se révèle dès ce premier film comme le digne héritier d’un Renoir et le poète de l’intimité du microcosme familial.

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