thankful small college town abingdon va near bristol tn home famous barter theatre gregory peck acted managed get art film festival togather show film there abingdon two hour hours live trip worth every sense word uzakdistant amazing brilliant jarring emotional captivating film turkishamerican film testimony life turkey like larger scale tells world like turkish whether one lives istanbul berlin montreal new york omaha may two hours length opposed five minutes effectively bob marley song many wonderful scenes film difficult choose random few but me one telling scene takes place beyoglu downtown istanbul cinema title character played mehmet emin toprak sadly died car accident shortly films completion follows attractive young woman staircase cinemas main auditorium goes see vanilla sky image tom cruise reflected glass sense turkish men competing tom cruise womens affections even though tom cruise nowhere found beyoglu scenes shot across bosphorous shores also quite revealing symbolize beauty yet desperate empty gulfs painful fact life turkey film gulf separates lovers families simple empty packet samsun turkish brand cigarettes dying mouse jump screen way seagulls  serif gorenyilmaz guney film yol many guneys films including yol suru herd  completed zeki okten babathe father  considered many best turkish films ever made without guneys sometimes overblown socialpolitical anger especially last film  prison drama duvarthe wall distance captures essence turkish life quite remarkably crowning achievement director view already proclaimed turkish equivalent directors like tarkovsky bresson ozu cant wait see films