GRAND PRIZE OF THE JURY FOR BEST FILM, CANNES FILM FESTIVAL 2011
Its long (two and a half hours). Its deliberately paced (that is to say, slow). But five-time Palme dOr nominee Ceylans unconventional police procedural about the search for a body in the Anatolian steppes is true, empathetic art perfect in its balance of pictorial and humanistic concerns [with] wondrous cinematography… It is not an easy picture. Not many masterpieces are. (Chicago Tribune) English subtitles