Kasaba (1997)

Highly Recommended

Turkey

Feature Film

Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Writers: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Emin Ceylan

Cinematographer: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Composer: Ali Kayaci

Cast: Cihat Bütün, Emin Ceylan, Fatma Ceylan, Muzaffer Özdemir, Havva Saglam, Emin Toprak

Ceylan’s visually ravishing feature debut, set in his provincial hometown, featuring numerous members of his family both in front of and behind the camera, taking a leisurely paced, beautifully observed look at small town family life, is a more poetic and optimistic work than his subsequent films but no less perceptive or masterful. Iain.Stott