Three Monkeys
2008·Drama·1h 49m
7.1
★
A family battles against the odds to stay together when small lies grow into an extravagant cover-up. In order to avoid hardship and responsibilities that would otherwise be impossible to endure, the family chooses to ignore the truth, not to see, hear or talk about it. But does playing “Three Monkeys” invalidate the truth of its existence?
Directed by Nuri Bilge Ceylan
hit-and-run
cheat on husband
family relationships
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Cast
Yavuz Bingöl
Eyüp
Hatice Aslan
Hacer
Ahmet Rıfat Şungar
İsmail
Ercan Kesal
Servet
Crew
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Director
Ebru Ceylan
Writer
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Writer
Ercan Kesal
Writer
Ayhan Ergürsel
Editor
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Editor
Gökhan Tiryaki
Director of Photography
Valerio De Paolis
Co-Producer
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Producer
Harika Uygur
Casting
Ebru Ceylan
Art Direction
Popular Reviews
31 reviews
Beisa Šabić
Moj turski sultan me nikad ne razocara✍️😜💅🏻❤️
Moj turski sultan me nikad ne razocara✍️😜💅🏻❤️
Mack Jadden
7.0★ · 03/25/25
https://youtu.be/Gx2cFRXnbGE?si=XI3qS3d2FdkPLKH7
https://youtu.be/Gx2cFRXnbGE?si=XI3qS3d2FdkPLKH7
Liberty
6.7★ · 03/25/25
At this point, considering the past two weeks picks, I’m just going to avant garde to suck out all my life and joy
At this point, considering the past two weeks picks, I’m just going to avant garde to suck out all my life and joy
Max FW
8.9★ · 10/20/22
Loooove the pacing here legit. Now time to see how that translates over to almost 3 and a half hours with this guy.
Loooove the pacing here legit. Now time to see how that translates over to almost 3 and a half hours with this guy.
Sahil
4.0★ · 03/04/20
This is the my first Ceylan movie that i would consider not fantastic. The script and the story is just so ordinary, even with the proverbial three monkeys theme and however you wanna ecorporate that into your understanding of the family dynamics its just so very simple. I would imagine Ceylan made it a point to aim at a specific tone throughout his films that would follow Three Monkeys, like the bleak comedy of Anatolia, the epic slow death of Winter Sleep and the helplessness of the youth in The wild pear tree. He seems to try to construct something out of dry air with too much faith in his DOP and there’s no tone, there’s no graduality here that’s noticeable that you can point to and say here, i feel it what Ceylan’s trying to say here. That being said i do understand the choice to do something as dry as this given thats the natural progression after Uzak and Climates, but damm, my guy Nuri went full dry nuke on this one, mostly for the worse.
This is the my first Ceylan movie that i would consider not fantastic. The script and the story is just so ordinary, even with the proverbial three monkeys theme and however you wanna ecorporate that into your understanding of the family dynamics its just so very simple. I would imagine Ceylan made it a point to aim at a specific tone throughout his films that would follow Three Monkeys, like the bleak comedy of Anatolia, the epic slow death of Winter Sleep and the helplessness of the youth in The wild pear tree. He seems to try to construct something out of dry air with too much faith in his DOP and there’s no tone, there’s no graduality here that’s noticeable that you can point to and say here, i feel it what Ceylan’s trying to say here. That being said i do understand the choice to do something as dry as this given thats the natural progression after Uzak and Climates, but damm, my guy Nuri went full dry nuke on this one, mostly for the worse.