Eight months after its premiere at Cannes, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s The Wild Pear Tree is opening next Wednesday in New York and its release has been heralded with this lovely poster by Scott Meola for Cinema Guild. I led off my Cannes competition round-up last May with an earlier poster for the film—one which also featured its protagonist dwarfed by a saturated landscape and Turner-esque skies—but this one is even better.The Wild Pear Tree is a magical film, but its magic is hard to encapsulate in a poster. Most of its three hour running time features its hang-dog anti-hero, Sinan—an aspiring writer newly graduated from university who returns to his home town to try to publish his writing—shuffling around the town and its environs with his hands in his pockets, his head bowed and his mouth in a perpetual sneer. The film is composed...
- 1/25/2019
- MUBI
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