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Three Monkeys

Jul 5
Sun 3:30 PM
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 9  people attended.
4.00 4.003

Who organized?
Susan

The following synopsis is from the MFA website:

Three Monkeys
3:40 — 5:30 pm
Sunday, July 5, 2009
Remis Auditorium

Three Monkeys by Nuri Bilge Ceylan (2008, 109 min.). From the director of Climates and Distant, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Three Monkeys centers on a family's struggle to cover up the truth after a rising politician convinces his driver to take the blame for a hit and run. The film has all the makings of a noir-style psychological thriller--resentment, adultery, murder, and cynicism--but retains Ceylan's trademark striking cinematography, meditative shots, elliptical intrigue, and bleak tone. "No one working in cinema today can suggest an interior psychological state, solely through the camera's external observation of an unmoving character, as well as Ceylan can" (Peter Brunette, Hollywood Reporter). In Turkish with English subtitles.
From the Rotten Tomatoes site comes this perspective:
Consensus: Exploring the effects of a family's dealings with an underhanded politician, this crime drama avoids showing the violent outcomes of its characters' misdeeds, resulting in a lingeringly potent film.

Below is a link to a more in-depth review:

http://movies.nytimes...
If you would like to go to the restaurant afterwards for a discussion, please submit your RSVP. We will go some place where we can get the food quickly since it will be a Sunday evening. Hope to see you there.
Susan

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  • 9 attendees
    • Ruth Cope (+1 guest)
      “ Because the movie was long, I didn't attend the Meetup; howeveer, the movie was a genre movie, artistically done. Really fascinating, slow intentionally in the beginning, developing characters and tension. I liked it, but for my friend, it was too slow-moving. ”
    • “ Intense drama - well done, captivating though a bit longer than necessary. Broody dark film-noir atmosphere was a bit incongruous with the beautiful sunny day that we happened to see it. ”