By Michael Roddy
CANNES, France, May 17 (Reuters) - Turkish director Nuri
Bilge Ceylan says his film "Winter Sleep" dealing with the huge
divide between rich and poor, the powerful and the powerless in
modern day Turkey is not based on current events, but is meant
to teach his country a lesson.
Ceylan's film lasting three hours and 16 minutes has
received some of the best reviews of any film shown so far at
Cannes, with the French newspaper Le Monde calling it
"magnificent".
Despite its setting in the vast Anatolian steppe, the
atmosphere is almost claustrophobic as it shows a rich man and
former actor named Aydin (Haluk Bilginer) who uses his intellect
and position to bully his tenants and beat his wife and sister
into intellectual submission.
But Ceylan said his portrayal of abuse of power - by a man
obsessed with his own pride - is based on tales from Chekhov,
and was not inspired by recent events in Istanbul where people
rioted over the planned development of a popular city square.
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