Roughly halfway through Nuri Bilge Ceylan's 'Once Upon a Time in Anatolia' , after a long night in search of a body through remote Turkish hillsides, a weary parade of officials and the accused stop for sustenance. Tiredness and confusion has muddled the mind of the suspect over the whereabouts of the body. The search party, consisting of a police commissioner, doctor, prosecutor and driver, are all past the point of tiredness. They've all written the night off and have resigned themselves to the fact that they're unlikely to return to town with either a confession or the missing body. In the early hours of the morning, the three-car parade stop for a break in a village and gather in the darkness of the local mayor's home. All the men are physically and emotionally spent. Even in the darkness, the stresses and strains of their working and personal lives are discernable through the shadows thrown on each of their faces. Cracks ar...
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