i be very thankful that the small college town of abingdon and va. near bristol and tn . and home of the famous barter theatre where gregory peck once act manage to get an art film festival togather and show this film there . abingdon be two and a hour hour from where i live and but the trip be worth it in every sense of the word . uzak or distant be an amazing and brilliant and jarring and emotional and captivating film . a a turkish american and this film be not only a testimony a to what life in turkey be like while but on a large scale it tell the world of what it be like to be turkish whether one live in istanbul and berlin and montreal and new york and or omaha . it may be two hour in length a oppose to five minute and but this be effectively our bob marley song . there be so many wonderful scene in this film . it be very difficult to choose just a random few . but and for me and one tell scene take place in a beyoglu ( downtown istanbul ) cinema . the title character and play by mehmet emin toprak who sadly die in a car accident shortly after this film completion and follow a very attractive young woman down a staircase to the cinema main auditorium . she go into see vanilla sky . a the image of tom cruise be reflect from a glass and we sense that turkish men be compete with tom cruise for their own woman affection even though tom cruise be nowhere to find in beyoglu . the scene shoot across the bosphorous shore be also quite reveal a they symbolize the beauty and yet desperate empty gulf and which be a painful fact of life in turkey . in this film and the gulf separate lover and family . a simple and empty packet of samsun ( turkish brand ) cigarette and a dying mouse jump off the screen the way seagulls do in the 1982 serif goren yilmaz guney film yol . many of guney film and include yol and suru the herd ( 1978 complete by zeki okten ) and baba the father ( 1971 ) have be consider by many to be the best turkish film ever make . without guney sometimes overblown social political anger ( especially in his last film and the 1983 prison drama duvar the wall ) and distance capture the essence of turkish life quite remarkably . this be a crowning achievement for a director who in my view can already be proclaim a the turkish equivalent to director like tarkovsky and bresson and and ozu . i can not wait to see his other film .