Trailer for Cannes' Palm d'Or Winner 'Winter Sleep'

When Turkish film director Nuri Bilge Ceylan made what is becoming a regular trip to Cannes with his latest film, Winter Sleep, it was expected to make a lot of waves. And why wouldn't it? Ceylan has won Best Director there in 2008 for Three Monkeys, and won the Grand Jury Prize a couple of times for Distant and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia. But Winter Sleep topped all of those prior efforts when it beat out an impressive field to win the Palm d'Or. And now as the film gears up for an Oscar qualifying run here in the U.S. the first domestic trailer has arrived for the three-hour drama.

Once again set in Anatolia, the film follows a former actor now the owner of a mountaintop hotel as he deals with a failing marriage and the disdain of the townsfolk. It's a film that looks at the divide between Turkey's powerful and powerless, the rich and the poor. Winter Sleep opens in limited release on December 19th.  Here's the trailer and full synopsis:


WINTER SLEEP US Trailer (Cannes Palme d’Or Winner - 2014) by Gamersincorporated

Aydin, a former actor, runs a small hotel in central Anatolia with his young wife Nihal with whom he has a stormy relationship and his sister Necla who is suffering from her recent divorce. In winter as the snow begins to fall, the hotel turns into a shelter but also an inescapable place that fuels their animosities...