Winter Sleep

Watching the films of Godly Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan is an exquisite pleasure, akin in visceral terms only to something like gorging on the richest of meals, served with the finest of wines; some pleasure so sumptuous and so headily present it’s almost overwhelming.

Winter Sleep, his latest film, is four hours of that, and perhaps his greatest dish yet. Like Anatolia, and Three Monkeys before it, Winter Sleep is another rich, textured drama filled with a humanity that’s drawn with an almost unbearable verisimilitude – with characters you’ll find yourself inhabiting almost as much as you do yourself.