About Dry Grasses review rich, engrossing Turkish epic with a twist
Briefly

He registers displeasure with every heavy step through the blizzard as he returns to a place he describes repeatedly as a hellhole... Samet... turns out to be a thoroughly reprehensible individual.
Assigned as an art teacher to a rural backwater school, Samet is counting the months until he can request a transfer to Istanbul, demonstrating his indifference to the region's beauty.
Samet has genuine affection for a 14-year-old student, Sevim, favoring her in the classroom and indulging her with small gifts, despite the film teetering on being suffocatingly verbose.
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