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7.4/10   4,008 votes
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Director:
Writers:
Ebru Ceylan (screenplay)
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (screenplay)
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Release Date:
3 October 2008 (Taiwan) more
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Plot:
A family suffers from a major communication breakdown during their struggle to to get through their hardships. | full synopsis
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Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination more
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(28 articles)
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Dark, stylish, noir thriller is definitely no turkey! more (24 total)

Cast

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Yavuz Bingol ... Eyüp
Hatice Aslan ... Hacer
Rifat Sungar ... Ismail
Ercan Kesal ... Servet
Cafer Köse ... Bayram
Gürkan Aydin ... The Child
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Three Monkeys (International: English title) (USA) (new title)
Le tre scimmie (Italy)
Les trois singes (France)
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Runtime:
109 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Turkey's 2009 Academy Awards official submission to Foreign-Language Film category. more
Goofs:
Continuity: Ismail's safety belt fastened on and off at consecutive cuts,while he is driving his father back from the prison. more

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Dark, stylish, noir thriller is definitely no turkey!, 1 March 2009
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Author: catflap20 from Australia

I can't remember if I've ever seen a Turkish film before, which is a pity, because if Three Monkeys is anything to go by, I have missed some terrific movies.

This is a dark, stylish, noir thriller which sees a man agreeing to take the rap for his political master who is involved in a car accident. In return for doing time for a crime he did not commit, his boss will continue to pay his salary to his family, and also settle the 'debt' with a lump sum payment when the man is eventually released. While he is in prison, his wife is left to hold the family together and she and her son quickly get caught up in a web of passion and betrayal.

Director, Nuri Bilge Ceylan carried off the Best Director Award at Cannes for this, his fifth feature, and it's not hard to see why.

Three Monkeys is is a dark, brooding film, where every shot has been thought through and framed with meticulous detail. Long, intense close ups of the principal characters produces sustained psychological tension as unspoken words seem to fly through the air like knives.

The principal cast of Three Monkeys; Yavuz Bingöl, Hatice Aslan, Ahmat Rifal Sungar, and Ercan Kesal, are universally good, but top credits should go to Hatice Aslan, the femme fatale of the piece, who has the ability to convey many layers of meaning by saying little and feeling much.

Highly recommended.

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