"Mesmerizingly Beautiful: A Departure for Nuri Bilge Ceylan - About Dry Grasses (2024) Review"

Nuri Bilge Ceylan's "About Dry Grasses" is a mesmerizing and hypnotic film that delves into the lives of its characters in a slow-paced, character-driven narrative set in a forbidding landscape. The movie features extended, scripted conversations that prompt viewers to watch and listen differently, and it explores themes of disconnect, beauty, and the potential for violence in a rural Turkish town. Ceylan's caustic yet compassionate vision culminates in a magnificently lyrical ending, leaving audiences with a dark empathy for the characters and themselves.