A callery pear tree’s beauty is deceptive. There’s no denying the tree’s showy white flowers are eye-catching when they begin blooming in early spring. However, underneath those pretty blossoms lurks ...

"Always eat with caution," the forager warned. The Bradford pear tree, also known as a Callery pear tree, is largely despised ...

Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s latest feature is a deep psychological portrait set against an expansive landscape. Idris, who’s about to retire, spends his weekends fixing up a family farm on the outskirts of ...

A Callery pear tree’s beauty is deceptive. There’s no denying the tree’s showy white flowers are eye-catching when they begin blooming in early spring. However, underneath those pretty blossoms lurks ...

In this blurry week of Jussie Smollett, Donald Trump (it’s every week with that guy) and idly rampant Oscars speculation, the mere existence of “The Wild Pear Tree” seems absurd. The Turkish director ...

In the picture’s most bravura sequence, our protagonist, Sinan (Doğu Demirkol), a teaching-school grad and wannabe writer who oscillates between extremes of shy apprehension and dogged impertinence, ...

With “Winter Sleep,” Turkish auteur Nuri Bilge Ceylan signaled a shift in style, increasing the importance of extended dialogues to the visually rich chamber pieces he plays out on grand stages. “The ...

Early on in “The Wild Pear Tree,” a rich and ruminative new movie from the Turkish writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, there is a bracingly sharp, infuriating exchange — a small masterpiece of ...

Cinema Guild has bought U.S. distribution rights to Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s “The Wild Pear Tree,” a month after it premiered in competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Cinema Guild will release the film ...

A YOUNG man approaches two imams picking fruit on a dusty road in rural Turkey. After friendly greetings, they get to talking: the imams reveal that they have just attended a lavish wedding, and their ...

The Wild Pear Tree is a film that stays with you for a while, long after viewing it. This three-hour long film follows Sinan (played by Aydın Doğu Demirkol), a recently graduated student, who returns ...