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MOVIE REVIEW

‘Once Upon a Time in Anatolia’ a Turkish procedural

By Wesley Morris

 |  Globe Staff  

  May 16, 2012

***1/2 Once Upon a Time in Anatolia A police procedural set in the Turkish hinterlands, featuring a caravan searching for a recently buried body. The movie, directed by the nearly great Nuri Bilge Ceylan, is full of long, scrupulously composed scenes that unfold in a loose approximation of real time, with wry comedy, frivolous chitchat, and loaded anecdotes. The murder remains elusive, but the filmmaking is exquisite. In Turkish, with subtitles. (157 min., unrated) (Wesley Morris)

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