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Distant

Distant

7.1/ 10

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255

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2002

Release Year

106 min

Runtime

Drama

Overview

A young man from rural Turkey arrives in Istanbul with dreams of working on a ship and stays with a cousin while he searches for work. Over time, the former’s struggles to find employment and the latter’s troubles and disappointments strain their relationship and living situation.

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Keywords

photographer
recession
loneliness
unemployment

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6.0avg rating
griggs79

griggs79

March 28, 2025

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6/10

_Uzak_ struck me as a quiet, contemplative look at loneliness—not just being alone, but that more profound kind of isolation you can feel even when someone’s right there. I admired Ceylan’s direction: those long, still shots, the wintry mood, the way silence does most of the talking. Muzaffer Özdemi

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