As Arvo Pärt's orchestration runs ponderously through the film, so the consequences of cyclical violence weigh heavily on Erdem's mind. But his vision is not without hope.

| Original Score: A- | Jun 15, 2012

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

It's a work of singular beauty.

| Aug 27, 2010

An earthy, cruelly honest dream-wander through the physical and emotional awakenings of three young teenagers whose lives are shaped and constrained by the rural rhythms of their remote mountain village.

| Oct 29, 2008

Erdem's script and his young cast do a fine job of recalling the years between carefree childhood (embodied by Omer's brother, the precocious and adorable Ali) and adult power and duties.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Too surreal and symbolic to fully connect with mainstream cinema audiences, but lovers of challenging festival films will be captivated

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2008

Though painfully slow to ignite and poetically portentous on occasions, Reha Erdem's film about three children growing up in a remote Anatolian village, isolated by high mountains, has an impressive edge to it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2008

Light radiates intensely from Reha Erdem's glowing enigma, a spiritual yet earthy meditation on the passing of time that proves quietly fruitful.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2008

The film is concerned with observing the passage of time, the change in the light, the immemorial contours of the landscape, and, in one shot, a very touching pieta of a boy and his new baby sibling. Compelling stuff if you can stay with it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2008

We've seen this kind of picturesque rural drama before, but director Reha Erdem still hews a rich poetry from the material. The story's elegantly structured around the five daily calls-to-prayer given from a parapet with stunning views.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2008

Difficult, frustrating, but engrossing and ultimately enriching, make time to see it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2008

But it's Erdem's unsentimental compassion towards his characters, his fidelity to the rhythms of their lives and the arcs of their imaginations, that gives this film its wondrous power and depth.

| Aug 29, 2008

Times and Winds is a remarkable piece of work, conceived at the highest pitch of intelligence: it is a cinematic poem, replete with fear and rapture, and one of the best films of the year.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 29, 2008

It is, at a guess, about life's relentless march, about death, rebirth, and the hollow limits of religion in the face of overwhelming nature. You have to see it to get it, but when you've got it you've got it for good.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 29, 2008

A lyrical yet unsentimental vision of childhood, directed with striking assurance by Erdem.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 29, 2008

Buried in leaves or hugging the rocks, they could be in ecstatic communion or fusing with the natural world. More likely, Erdem's marvellous film sees them as bridging the divide between heaven and earth.

| Original Score: 4/6 | Aug 29, 2008

A toughly touching insight into the pain of growing up.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 29, 2008

Everything in Times and Winds glides by like a dream. Or perhaps, the dreamlike tone reminds us that we'll never know such hardship.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 16, 2008

Leisurely paced and beautifully lensed, yet reveals hard truths about human frailty in the face of social and familial ills.

| Jun 16, 2008

Deriving its power and poignancy in small doses rather than from any false sense of drama, this contemplative and quiet look at life...is an accomplished piece of arthouse cinema.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2008