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This movie feels like you're peeking into the lives of these characters, and it can be very awkward. The story is, basically, a conflict between a landlord and a tenant. The main landlord is kind of an **** He's snobbish and condescending, but the tenant isn't the most likeable either. These characters feel like people. Flawed and conflicted. Their story is more fascinating to watch that it would seem at first. The film is very long and very slow, but instead of being boring, it's relaxing, despite how unrelaxed the characters may be (they spend a lot of the time arguing). It's also really tense. Tense and relaxing. Oddly nostalgic. If I were to compare it to a more recent movie, that would be Hu Bo's An Elephant Sitting Still.

Another boring communist fairy tale. It verges on venturing into some interesting subjects, but never really does, and the pace is monumentally slow. The only upside is you get a peek into modern day Turkey. For all it's worth

Winter Sleep is a beautiful, well-deserved winner of the Palm D' Or in Cannes in 2014 and undoubtedly is one of the less boring films that surpasses the three hours of duration, Immense, intimate and incisive and very spoken, the film will be confined in art tones beyond the conventional cinema, thanks to its enormous duration but the rewards of its story arrive if you deepen enough .

This movie tells a true story. Not about true events but about true people. Main character of film is as real as I am, or maybe even you. He have his flaws that he can't see. He isn't bad to the bone, but he can hurt others with premeditation. This screenplay can make you to think about how blind sometimes we are to our own devils.

Winter Sleep is literally a sleep in the winter. Don't make this movie fool you, that's not that Winter Sleep's about. It's way, and I mean a lot, more than that.

Excellent from beginning to end. The play-like dialogues are flawlessly acted, and they stay captivating because of the brilliant writing which intertwines the complex study of an interesting character with relevant observasions on human psychology, ethical conundrums and class differences.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

This 3 hour drama seems like we are under wasted moments which may not add anything to this story. But Ceylan is very much clear about setting every single frame which not only just added visual beauty but also provided entrenching movie moments which strengthen the story's core.

This 3 hour drama seems like we are under wasted moments which may not add anything to this story. But Ceylan is very much clear about setting every single frame which not only just added visual beauty but also provided entrenching movie moments which strengthen the story's core.

The film itself will be hard to follow and like (as it has an extremely ambitious running time of three hours and that the film is mostly filled with long conversations), but the end result is rewarding. Nuri Bilge Ceylan has made a epic film that deals with power and the struggling relationship between the wealthy and the poor. A film that requires your immediate attention (and attention necessary to finish the film).

I could not help but be fascinated with this movie. Three hours plus but so spellbinding it didn't seem like it. A beautiful film, amazingly directed.

The work made with this movie is simply awesome. An amazing story, but sometimes the dialogues turn to something boring and unnecessary. Still is one of the best movies this year and an amazing Academy Award contender for Best Foreign Language Film.

With a cast of the best Turkish actors at this moment, Nuri Bilge Ceylan made something beautiful here and it's gonna stay with me for a very long time.