Abstract:

The last film of Nuri Bilge Ceylan titled ‘Once Upon a Time in Anatolia’ is a radical rupture in the filmography of the director and also could be considered within the context of previous links which are secretly treated, transferred and transformed. Distinguished features of photographic effect, visual compositions and formal aesthetics used in director’s previous films reinforced its stability and hermeneutical readability with his last film. In this instance, it is observed that the open form not only allows to make a structural analysis of the film, but also makes it possible – even it necessitates – to read cultural, social and psychological facts. Thereby the film which makes the critical approach readable by its nature could create situations which can both accord and disaccord with each other through society, culture and individual. In a routine, it generates a hermeneutical, philosophical and contextual base which can be ‘dialogical’ in Bakhtinian sense and which can create ‘image impression’ through stability in Bergsonian sense

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