A group of men including a sceptical doctor, an irascible police chief, a vain prosecutor and two murder suspects – travel at night through the Anatolian countryside in search of a buried corpse.
In the hands of Turkish maestro Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Uzak), this leisurely journey from darkness into light becomes a hypnotic meditation on life, death and the mysteries of the universe.
Closer in metaphysical spirit to Kiarostami than to Leone, it lingers thanks to beautifully lit widescreen images of lived-in faces and barren, beautiful landscapes.
