A seven-time Cannes competition filmmaker and Palme d’Or winner for 2014’s Winter Sleep, Turkish master auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan has settled into a remarkably consistent rhythm, unveiling a new feature roughly every four years. Defined by his meticulous compositions, natural landscapes, philosophical dialogue, and profound psychological inquiries with characters who are either intellectuals, teachers, photographers, civil servants, or artists. Focusing on failed communication and emotional distance, we adore a cinema that sits in silence and measures the philosophical space between its player set and the limits of self-knowledge. After premiering The Small Town (1997) and Clouds of May (1999) at the Berlinale, we’ve had Uzak (2002), Climates (2006), Three Monkeys (2008), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011), The Wild Pear Tree (2018) and About Dry Grasses (2023) load up the croisette. Here is everything we know so far for…Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s Yorgun Güneş. which goes by the French language title of Soleil Blafard and possibly Pale Sun in English.
We first heard of the project back in March when it was announced that there was some players boarding the new Ceylan project. Shortly after we learned of a summer shoot -more precisely in Istanbul and Assos, Turkey with the Aegean Sea has a backdrop.
Sabri lives alone in the suburbs of Ankara. His daughter, who lives in Istanbul, invites him to spend a few days with her and her young son at her seaside vacation home. After the initial joy of their reunion, long-buried resentments slowly surface.
Pinar Deniz, Altan Erkekli, Osman Sonant, Kerem Bursin, Mahir Ipek, Serkan Ercan and Sebnem Hassanisoughi load up this project.
Producers include Arte France Cinema with Olivier Père, Memento Production and Ceylan’s NBC Film. We’re curious to see which cinematographer was enlisted here.
Filming just wrapped up this past month, ample time for Pale Sun to be heading to Cannes for a shot at a second Palme d’Or for the Turkish filmmaker.
