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Wednesday, May 27, 2015

Winter Sleep and Ibsen

Just to add a coda on Winter Sleep - I was surprised Ceylan didn't cite Ibsen as an influence, as it seems to me that the personality and struggle of the young wife is a contemporary take, in some ways, on A Doll's House - the woman struggling to be free and independent and to have a meaningful life, and treated by the men in her life with nothing but condescension.

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