The Wild Pear Tree is the Turkish master's funniest film to date. It's also his most political, tackling with delicacy the growing influence of religion and generational conflict.

| Jul 2, 2021

With a parsimonious rhythm spread over three hours, this film by Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan makes me seriously think about when exposing an enriching philosophical treatise on the existential dilemmas of postmodern man. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 24, 2020

The Wild Pear Tree is that rare film that captures the trial and tribulations of a young person who is intelligent enough to be both self-aware and pessimistic.

| Jul 17, 2020

A nervy, jittery, restless work from a filmmaker determined to never stop probing, reflecting, and seeking answers.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 14, 2019

Beautiful cinematography but a self-indulgent mess.

| Oct 28, 2019

A film that knows perfectly that, if it wants to mimic the specific weight of a good novel, its ultimate ambition has to be to articulate a worldview from the organic construction of a subjectivity. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Aug 14, 2019

The entire feel of the film shifts at times, often mid-scene, as Sinan attempts to craft a personal history while trying to break free from the shackles of history at large.

| Aug 7, 2019

Full of passion and sensuality and lyricism. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jul 29, 2019

The very limpid photography of Gökhan Tiryaki and a soundtrack in which Bach dominates, contribute to create this atmosphere of melancholy. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 20, 2019

For the patient viewer it's a visually stunning film filled with both comical and magical moments.

| Original Score: A | Jun 4, 2019

Ceylan is a virtuoso director of actors and he knows how to impress his stories with an unequivocally Chejovian spirit. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 3, 2019

The road to adulthood, according to Ceylan, is a winding road and not without difficulty. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 31, 2019

Ceylan does not cede to the temptations of having a crowd-pleasing film and delivers an endearing film. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 31, 2019

Beautifully composed, with music that adds ambience, and with acting so convincing it feels like a documentary, The Wild Pear Tree is a remarkable film.

| May 30, 2019

The return to [one's hometown] is a frequent starting point of innumerable stories, but in The Wild Pear Tree [Turkish director] Nuri Bilge Ceylan explores it with remarkable mastery. [Full review in Spanish]

| May 30, 2019

We thus have a film of reflections, of characters that look at us for us to see them, of conversations well woven in the visual, solid, robust in their locations. [Full Review in Spanish]

| May 14, 2019

True to the style of Nuri Bilge Ceylan, The Wild Pear Tree is a discursive setting with philosophical-existentialist intentions. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 12, 2019

"The Wild Pear Tree" wends its patient, intelligent way toward a rapprochement between the generations, an acceptance of the past and the land, and a weary wising-up of its central figure.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 10, 2019

Recalling the metaphorical lyricism of Ceylan's early films, this is a rare moment where the director trusts ambience over prose.

| Mar 21, 2019

...Ceylan allows his character's search for artistic meaning, truth, purpose and inspiration to double as a personal existential opus, in which he uses garrulous dialogue to interrogate the absurdity of life, and probe its Big Questions.

| Mar 14, 2019