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22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100CineVueJohn BleasdaleCineVueJohn BleasdaleAbout Dry Grasses is part-Chekovian comedy of yearning and male ego, and part-tragedy of a country which stymies the growth of its own citizens.
- 90Screen DailyLee MarshallScreen DailyLee MarshallAbout Dry Grasses is a ravishingly cinematic piece of work that seems designed to spark animated, if not acrimonious, debate.
- 90TheWrapTomris LafflyTheWrapTomris LafflyIt’s a searing, mesmerizing and unforgettably wintry mood piece and character study.
- 88Slant MagazineDiego SemereneSlant MagazineDiego SemereneAbove all, the film captures how easy it is to deposit too much hope on the few who represent dissent, or freedom, when one is trapped.
- 83IndieWireSiddhant AdlakhaIndieWireSiddhant AdlakhaAbout Dry Grasses is among the most brilliantly off-putting works to be featured at Cannes in recent years, with so rotten a core that every hint of virtue or even normalcy in the camera’s peripheral vision becomes a tragedy unto itself, simply by way of being ignored.
- While the Turkish director seems ever-fascinated with gloomy, nihilistic anti-heroes, he does vest more hope in human relationships than usual.
- 83The Film StageLeonardo GoiThe Film StageLeonardo GoiOne of the greatest mysteries behind Ceylan’s cinema is how his talk-heavy sprawls manage to escape the aloofness of the chamber dramas they so often unspool as. Grasses is another scintillating example of that paradox, a film in which chats do not unfurl so much as detonate.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThis film, so apparently forbidding and opaque the way many Ceylan films initially are, has in fact something engrossing in its garrulous and wide-ranging quality: a literary quality in fact.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinThe Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinThe movie goes downhill into predictable territory, finally landing in a soggy quagmire of talkiness and would-be profundity expressed in voiceover at the end. But at least the visuals are nice, with Ceylan’s signature use of snow-capped landscape and wide-angled lensing to the fore.