Clouds of May

– This is a movie within a movie, about a director, Muzaffer, who goes back to his hometown to make a ..

Type:
Movie
Rating:
7.50 / 10
Duration:
2 Hours and 10 Minutes
Release Year:
1999
Original Name:
Mayıs Sıkıntısı
Clouds of May
Clouds of May (1999) - Also known as Mayıs Sıkıntısı

This is a movie within a movie, about a director, Muzaffer, who goes back to his hometown to make a film using a cast of local people (based on the director Ceylan's first feature, Kasaba). While Muzaffer is around, his mother complains about simple health problems, his father is in a legal fight against the government for his land, his cousin leaves his job to help Muzaffer who promises to find him work in Istanbul, and his little cousin Ali tries to carry an egg in his pocket for forty days so that he'll get the watch of his dreams. In the meantime, they form the cast for Muzaffer's movie as well.

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Release Date:

10 Dec 1999

Language:

Turkish

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Plot:

This is a movie within movie, which is almost recursive, i.e., the movie inside looks like director Ceylan's previous movie, Kasaba. It is about the movie director, Muzaffer, going back to ...

Awards:

14 wins & 4 nominations.

Ratings:
Internet Movie Database:
7.5/10
Metacritic:
75%

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