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Review: ‘About Dry Grasses’ is a richly evocative 2024 highlight

Merve Dizdar, right, is an English teacher from eastern Turkey in "About Dry Grasses."

“About Dry Grasses” begins with blackness, and the plep-plep sound of wet snow hitting the ground. Seconds later comes the startling image of a man alone on a country road, more dot than man in the long shot, trudging along with a briefcase, surrounded by a wind-whipped sea of white.

Yes, you are correct. This is not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. But it’s too striking a shot to dismiss as self-conscious or unpromisingly stern. And this is the latest, and one

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