Review of Once Upon a Time in Anatolia

This film is first of all very beautiful in sceneries and cinematography, the latter by Gokhan Tiryaki. It's an existential film that uses the searching for a corpse, which will last one night, to tell a universal story about the misery of men in their lives and societies, and the dirt behind their small poor lives. That contasts with the beauty and immensity of landscape that's behind what's happening. The characters are masterfully described, also thanks to the beautiful closeups (and the very good actors, of course). This misery of the human events seems to contrast also with the women of the film, who are only two (it seems really a film of men) and who appear to be deeply dignified, innocent and angelic (same for the child).