Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, Nuri Bilge Ceylan's drama Winter Sleep examines Turkey's class divisions through the story of a former actor who runs a mountaintop hotel while his marriage dissolves. The film is full of extended conversations and has a running time of 196 minutes, so wear your comfortable pants. "In fits and starts, this is a stunning picture," writes The Guardian's Xan Brooks. "At its best, Winter Sleep shows Ceylan to be as psychologically rigorous, in his way, as Ingmar Bergman before him." by David Schmader