This is a terrific film. The cinematography is brilliant, fabulous. The acting is excellent. The dialogue is very natural, sometimes very funny (as in the subtitle quote in the heading of this review) sometimes philosophical, but always drawing us into the story and the lives of the characters.

There is a mystery within a mystery., one I understood in the end, the other I am not so sure about - but being left in doubt did not leave me disappointed but rather it left me liking the film even more.

This is an incredibly rich viewing experience even though it depicts relatively impoverished living standards.

It can hardly be called action packed but it is extremely engaging because of how beautifully it is filmed and how well it is written.

Kenan and his mentally handicapped brother confess to a murder but they can't find the site. The local police drive the duo around in the middle of the night but just can't find anything. It becomes a night of aimless driving in a rural landscape. About halfway through the movie, the sun is finally up, and they find the body.

This is a movie of the monotony of a murder investigation. It's about the small stuff. It's not all high drama. There are a lot of long silent scenes. That's kind of the point. It's the in-between moments. It reminds me of a Tarantino movie where he takes the moments in between the big action to have some fun. Except in this, the dialog is pedestrian and boring. It revels in how boring the dialog becomes. The scenery has that desolate beauty. It's lovely to look at but it's too tiresome and long. It's not something I could recommend.

The film opens in the dark as three cars pull up in a remote part of Turkey. The occupants get out; one of them asks another 'where is it buried'; the thinks he knows but isn't sure. After a while he decides it is the wrong location; it was light when he buried it and he was drunk so finding it won't be easy. The men argue and eventually decide to check another location but once again they have no luck. As they drive around we are introduced to the characters; policemen, the prosecutor, a doctor and two criminals. We also learn what they are looking for: the body of a man they murdered and buried. As the night passes they decide they must rest in a local village; the next day they continue the search and find the body before returning to town to perform an autopsy and lock up the killers. In the background to the search they chat about ordinary things and the prosecutor starts to tell an anecdote about a woman who said she would die on a specific day and did; at first it just seems like a slightly spooky story but by the end it proves to be quite tragic.

I don't think I've seen a crime drama quite like this before; there is no mystery as the killers are known, there is no action apart from driving around and a bit of digging, there isn't even a sense of danger… all these things and the fact that it is nearly three hours long might make it sound frightfully tedious but it isn't. It is a fine character study; as the time passes we get to know the characters; in particular the doctor, the prosecutor and the senior police officer. The cast appeared to do a fine job although as I had to rely on subtitles I can't judge their performances as well as a Turkish speaker could. The run time almost put me off watching but it never seemed to drag despite the fact that there were quite a few moments where nothing much was happening; this did serve to build atmosphere though. If you want to watch some thing rather different I heartily recommend this.