Visual catchphrases borrowed from Lynch, Bergman, and Billy Wilder get a thoroughly modern treatment in the Turkish noir Three Monkeys, a terse family drama framed by a hazy gloom that sticks to each character like a bad curse. A series of deep (literally and figuratively), disorienting, and ominously radiant shots depict a politician's vehicular manslaughter, the ensuing cover-up, and the slow-wheeling, all-encompassing damage wrought on the fall guy and his family. Purposefully setting aside any mystery about the crime itself, director Nuri Bilge Ceylan instead shifts our focus to the mounting emotional dread threatening to implode in each of the leads — a disconsolate housewife, her shiftless son, his domineering father, and the dejected Nero who exposes their seemingly stable existence as a sham.