Tim Jackson Web
  • Home
  • Actor
  • DIRECTOR
  • Drums
  • Photo
  • Blog
  • FILM REVIEWS
  • Night Visitors
  • Misc
  • Videos
  • CV
  • Eight Days a Week: The Beatles on Tour
  • Sully
  • Christine
  • Loving
  • Blog
  • BLACK FILM 2016
  • BESTS OF 2016
  • 20th Century Women
  • SOME BANDS
  • Photograph
  • THE ASSISTANT
  • EMMA
  • First Cow
  • Video Essays
  • Tommaso
  • Driveways
  • Boston Films
  • Painted Bird
  • HELMUT NEWTON
  • Capital
  • Roy Cohn
  • Roger Stone
  • Lee Atwater
  • Herzog
  • Humankind
  • MISC.
  • BOOKS
  • Theater
  • Hitchcock Acting
  • Best of 2019
  • Best 2018
  • Best 2017
  • Best 2016
  • Best 2015
  • Best 2014
  • BEST 2013
  • White Tiger
  • New Mexican
  • Forgotten Bands
  • Summertime
  • Quiet Place 2
  • PInk
  • Killing of Two Lovers
  • Marriage
  • Bill Staines
  • Pleasure

Three Monkeys

Picture
This is an early achievement from director Nuri Bilge Ceylan and his screenwriter and wife Ebru Ceylan who also collaborated on the highly praised film Once in Anatolia. The story proceeds by way of ambiguous plot details that are as effective as an emotional landscape as a plotted story. But the story is pretty good as well. It has requisite 'noir' elements of compromise, corruption, unfaithfulness, and lies. The patient shooting style and devastating close-ups force the viewer into the emotional world of the characters. This is a great example of how world cinema can unfold a powerful in a fresh way, filled with ambiguities, paradoxes, and delectable ironies. 

The final image is a stunner, capturing the story, the emotional wreckage and maybe even the larger allegory for the country in general.  The title alone is a wry and cruel joke on the sad ambitions of the powerless.


Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.