Among the things I have never really been able to shake are the few pages in the middle of Where the Wild Things Are that don’t even have words. There are just big, fat and feathery beasts cavorting, swinging from branches, and tumbling about in a stylized forest – and then the book gets back […]
In Times and Winds, we follow three children who are trying to cope with their difficult parents, their changing worlds, and their own turbulent adolescence. Their adventures play out in the Turkish village of Kozlu, a landscape alive with color and clamorous with the bells of livestock, a place as punishing as it is beautiful. All three live in fear of the adult world. … And there is no wonderland of wild things into which they can escape, no benevolent Totoro to lift their spirits.
Few films in my moviegoing experience have conveyed the hardships of growing up with such piercing eloquence.
So the long awaited for trailer has hit the internet today, and I think it is safe to say that our collective curiosity is still well-piqued.