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Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

one of the film who reminds the falling leaves. or the rain of the evening. beautiful. seductive. and so fragile. its basic virtue - the open manner to explore different aspects/themes of the Turkish society. the basic sin - absence of courage to go inside each of them. the director has need of a love story. and nothing more. he suggest. but ignore the opportunity to examine. a meet. and a passion. like in many others Turkish contemporary movies. it is one of the delightful stories who seduce, impress and reminds the force of love who ignores frontiers. but nothing new in this. and this does, after the end of credits, to preserve only the flavors of a spring morning.

delicate. and nice. inspired music. good actors. and the absence of courage of director to build a real convincing story. because the basic sin of film is its fragility, the grace of a bashful exercise, the status of sketch though the possibilities and tools are numerous. it is a beautiful film but it could be a memorable one. because it opens so many doors without explore any room, because it remains a love story who use more the naive humor than the clash of cultures, because, after its end, you understand than it has not roots. an esthetically delight, it has all the resources to be more. Gorkem Yeltal remains only an ethereal shadow and Nadir Saribacak - victim of his cage- role . but it is far to be a bad movie. only, maybe a nice one.

I see only 2 reviews posted for this wonderful film. I'm an American from a suburb north of New York City. I am non-religious though raised Catholic, so it was interesting to me to see a close up shot of the prayer beads used in the Muslim service. The Rosary beads we used to pray when I was in church are very similar to the ones used by Muslims.The movie itself is very low key & slow moving & shows how much we share in common as human beings trying to make through each day. The man-made barriers of religion are just an obstacle which only make life more difficult for us.The universal message of loneliness and yearning for companionship is clearly the main storyline here. Nadir Saribacak as Musa, the Iman seeking love and Gorkem Yeltan as Clara, the Catholic neighbor are both excellent in their respective lead roles. They are very natural & the script is not over-written with meaningless dialog. The writers let the actor's faces tell most of the story.I felt that the film was very realistic from beginning to end & I highly recommend it.

Uzak Ihtimal (literally "long shot" or rather "remote possibility") is one of those simple and pure stories of love that have never been professed. Musa (Nadir Saribacak)is a muezzin who has been newly-assigned to a mosque in Galata,Istanbul. Clara (Görkem Yeltan),who happens to be living next door,is a Christian woman doing some voluntary work in a church near the mosque.Yakup(Ersan Uysal),who later turns out to be the biological father of Clara,has a used bookstore where he tries to deals with rare books on demand. Musa helps him when he is not working in the mosque. The more often Musa meets Clara the more affection and even love he starts to have for Clara.Clara, the reserved and reticent girl does not seem to show any open feelings for him though the viewers actually notice there is something in there. For a debut,Uzak İhtimal is a great achievement. Mahmut Fazil Coskun gives a purely humanitarian message by juxtaposing the pent-up emotions of a Muslim man and a Christian woman,especially in a world where we need more dialog between religions. But you need more than that to create a whole different movie. The script of the movie reminded me of the stereotypical Turkish movies of 70s.Back then, they always used to use this context where a father was trying to find his kid. When the used bookstore owner turned out to be the father of Clara I felt like the whole movie lost its spontaneity,originality and even its individuality.Moreover,I think the acting could have been better on the muezzin's part. Movies like this in which you treat "a religion" or a religious symbol like a mosque or church are a good chance to mobilize or shift public opinion. It's like canvassing the whole public opinion. As a Muslim,I would say Nadir Saribacak can't really fit the role of a muezzin. His voice is not mellifluous enough, the way he recites the Koranic chapters or supplications does not really sound awe-inspiring and the tone is so matter-of-fact. All I am saying Istanbul is at the heart of Islam and Islam should not sounded so local. With a better acting and a more original screenplay this could have been a perfect movie but it's still worth your time as a debut.