Ranked high in the pantheon of contemporary filmmakers, Ceylan follows up his 2014 Cannes Palme D'Or-winner WINTER SLEEP with a work of breathtaking visual beauty, subtle political resonance, and a comic/bitter/lyrical range of tone unmatched in his previous work. Sinan (Demirkol), a recent college graduate and aspiring writer, reluctantly returns to his hometown. While attempting to raise money to self-publish his first novel, he encounters people who reawaken his deep ambivalence about his small- town roots--most acutely, his father (Cemcir), a once-respected schoolteacher whose gambling addiction has dragged the family into debt. Stunning widescreen compositions trace Sinan's wanderings between the pastoral countryside and the breezy port city of Çanakkale--the latter linked to legendary battlefields (Troy, Gallipoli) that mirror the generational warfare at the heart of this deeply personal and richly metaphorical film. In Turkish with English subtitles. DCP digital widescreen. (MR)