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Reviews Counted:63
Fresh:45
Rotten:18
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: Aesthetically sound and solidly acted, but will nonetheless ring hollow for some viewers.
Theatrical Release:Oct 27, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Stuck in Istanbul and longing for his lost love, professor Isa (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) decides to leave the city and pursue his former girlfriend through wintery climes in this Cannes award-winning film.
Technically, it rewards with nothing less than painterly cinematography and a seamless surge of organic soundscapes, but the story is entirely predicated on a weather metaphor so obvious that even an unplugged Doppler radar could detect it.
The husband learns nothing, and his monstrous behavior makes the movie relentlessly downbeat.
[It] makes Mr. Ceylan’s career a subject for further serious study.
Top CriticDress warm for this chilly dissection of the irreconcilable gulf between men and women. Acutely observed, artfully executed, and grimly funny.
Superb, utterly natural performances all around ensure that there's not a false emotional moment in all of "Climates.
anyone who has known what it's like to feel regret and loneliness wrap around you like a scarf will no doubt feel a kindred spirit at work
Climates is filled with gorgeous, poetic images that ask us to engage with the movie and try to figure out if there's more to it than meets the eye.
[Director Ceylan] has created a plaintive work of art in Climates, the story of a mature relationship edging from the stale doldrums of summer to a winter of discontent.
Finds magnificence in the everyday and doesn’t allow one single word or action to stray from a complete vision of what it means to be living and loving today in [director Nuri Bilge] Ceylan’s home city of Istanbul.
Sizzles when it explores the fragile nature of relationships and the difficulty of connecting with the opposite sex.
All this technique is in the service of very little at the end of the day.
We realize that this romance, like the beautiful land, is doomed almost inevitably to earthquake fissures, to irreversible change. But rather than making us despondent, Climates leaves us peacefully philosophical.
Top Critic'Climates' is an emotionally true and devastating rendering of love gone stale.
A missed-love story with people you don't care about.
Climates is no nature documentary, but it does use heat waves and cold snaps as a metaphor for a relationship's tempestuous extremes.
There really isn't much of a story or script to keep you interested beyond the beautiful visuals.
One of the few directors of noncompromising art films, Ceylan has made an existential meditation on solitude and fleeting nature of happiness that in its detailed mise-en-scene and precise use of physical locations recalls Antonioni and Angelopoulos
Give it a pass.
A moody and sobering portrait of the end of a romantic relationship between an older man and a younger woman.
There is an undeniable beauty to some of [director] Ceylan's imagery, but as drama goes, this film is simply too inert for general audience tastes.
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