A masterpiece of craftsmanship that fails completely on the thematic front.
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09/27/07
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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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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.
05/12/07
Top CriticA photographer long before he became a director, Ceylan lets his impeccable compositions tell the stories that his sparse dialogue never suggests, and his ambient soundtrack completes the picture.
10/28/06
Ceylan's understated central performance is no flattering self-portrait: his Isa has a wry charm, but he's also a self-pitying and patronizing individual with a cruel streak.
02/06/07
In this new film, the camera captures the utter need roiling inside its lovers. The prevailing conditions are always subject to change. And whether to move on to newer, better climes seems like a terminal predicament of the soul.
01/05/07
Top CriticThe tightly rolled film contains no melodramatic filler, and Ceylan’s clear-eyed performance is nothing short of brave.
10/29/06
Dress warm for this chilly dissection of the irreconcilable gulf between men and women. Acutely observed, artfully executed, and grimly funny.
02/09/07
The husband learns nothing, and his monstrous behavior makes the movie relentlessly downbeat.
02/16/07
The beauty of the Turkish film Climates, a small but indelible masterpiece, is more than skin-deep. No 2006 film meant more to me. It's as sharp and lovely as the best Chekhov short stories.
02/15/07
Top CriticCaylan's utter minimalism leaves one with the feeling, mostly, of frosty dispassion.
11/16/06
The carefully composed exteriors are the only clue to the roiling emotions underneath.
01/26/07
There really isn't much of a story or script to keep you interested beyond the beautiful visuals.
10/24/06
Goes beyond distant, remote or even far-flung. It is as spare and isolated a movie about a relationship as has been made for many a year.
02/09/07
[The] main character spends an inordinate amount of time brooding and staring off into the distance, alternating with scenes of that character's girlfriend brooding and staring off into the distance.
03/09/07
Climates is pretty strong in its performances, but the rather luxurious -- some would say too-slow -- pacing may prove to be off-putting.
03/31/07
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
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
Making masterly use of sound and image, this is a desperately sad study of the difficulty people have to communicate and commit in an increasingly insular world.
02/07/07
[An] exquisitely structured, pitiless study of a middle-aged man trapped in a stagnant emotional weather pattern.
10/25/06
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
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