[It] makes Mr. Ceylan’s career a subject for further serious study.
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11/08/06
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Climates (2006)
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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.
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Top CriticDress warm for this chilly dissection of the irreconcilable gulf between men and women. Acutely observed, artfully executed, and grimly funny.
02/09/07
Superb, utterly natural performances all around ensure that there's not a false emotional moment in all of "Climates.
11/13/06
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
10/26/06
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.
05/17/07
[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.
05/22/07
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.
10/28/06
Sizzles when it explores the fragile nature of relationships and the difficulty of connecting with the opposite sex.
10/02/07
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.
01/11/07
Top Critic'Climates' is an emotionally true and devastating rendering of love gone stale.
10/18/06
Climates is no nature documentary, but it does use heat waves and cold snaps as a metaphor for a relationship's tempestuous extremes.
05/04/07
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
10/28/06
A moody and sobering portrait of the end of a romantic relationship between an older man and a younger woman.
10/14/06
A terrific movie in the Antonioni tradition, Climates confirms 47-year-old Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan as one of the world's most accomplished filmmakers.
10/24/06
Top CriticAs a study of male weakness, Climates hits at the bone but its formal beauty and dry humour help soften the blow.
09/23/06
One of the most perceptive and turbulent love stories in recent memory.
03/16/07
The carefully composed exteriors are the only clue to the roiling emotions underneath.
01/26/07
A stunning film to look at, and to listen to.
02/16/07
As much as I respect Climates, I can sympathize with viewers who will balk at the film's pretensions and glacial pacing.
03/23/07
The tightly rolled film contains no melodramatic filler, and Ceylan’s clear-eyed performance is nothing short of brave.
10/29/06
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