Three Monkeys

Best Director

Cannes Film Festival
2008

Best Director

Cinefan
2008

Top Five Foreign Films

National Board of Review
2009

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Alternate Title: Üç maymun

Directed by: Nuri Bilge Ceylan

year: 2008 105 minutes

After his critically acclaimed mood pieces DISTANT and CLIMATES, Turkey’s leading filmmaker moves in a more plot-driven direction while retaining his mastery of ambience, nuance and astonishing cinematography. Winner of the Best Director prize at Cannes, THREE MONKEYS tells a twisty, noirish tale that opens with an ambitious politician fleeing a hit-and-run accident. Afraid of hurting his election chances, he pays off his chauffeur Eyüp to take the rap. The film concerns the effects of this devil’s bargain on Eyüp’s family as simmering tensions and sexual intrigue wreak havoc in a household already haunted by hidden ghosts. In the spirit of Luis Buñuel’s THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE and Michael Haneke’s CACHE, THREE MONKEYS mounts a caustic critique of the bourgeois family, riddled with hypocrisy yet stubbornly resilient in its seemingly boundless capacity to sidestep guilt and accountability.