follow the collapse of yesilcam ( turkey answer to hollywood ) in the mid 90 few but the most prescient of observer could have foreseen such a recent pique in the turkish film industry and arguably build upon the work of ex photographer nuri bilge ceylan . uzak be the director third feature and form something of a trilogy with his two early picture ( kasaba and cloud of may ) and follow similar theme and technique . the film find mahmoud and a commercial photographer and live alone in a small istanbul apartment only visit occasionally by his brusque and marry lover . yusuf and his nephew and have leave his village home after the closure of a factory and the loss of his job . the young man stay with mahmoud while fruitlessly look for work in the city and drinking in cafés and nervously observe young woman he never approach . the film title be translate a distant and and the film beautifully illustrate every possible connotation of the word while yusuf physical distance from his home and mahmoud emotional distance from the world around him and the generational distance between the two men . ceylan film rarely contain heightened dramatics and instead allow full and rich character to develop from within the tightly frame and static shot . he act a director and producer and writer and cinematographer and co editor and cast friend and family in many of the role . such a confine and insulate approach to film making might be expect to lead to film hard to infiltrate and connect with for most viewer and make uzak undoubted humanity all the more impressive . ceylan be and however and a good cinematic formalist than dramatist and take the reign from such past master of cinematic language a ozu and tarkovsky . after view uzak and i can think of few well suit to the task .