Has occasional moments of quiet beauty but is just as often frustratingly inert.
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02/08/07
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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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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
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
This is a somber work -- Ceylan's movies have drawn comparisons to Antonioni for their probing of alienation and to Bresson for their unadorned style. But Ceylan has his moments of sly humor.
01/26/07
The carefully composed exteriors are the only clue to the roiling emotions underneath.
01/26/07
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 CriticMy basic problem with the movie is that the main characters are not terribly likable ... Because of this, the audience really doesn't get caught up in rooting for couple to reunite as they might in a more conventional romance
01/11/07
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 CriticA hushed, emotionally intense study of a crumbling relationship and the existential gloom and doom that come with it, Climates is an old-school art pic
12/01/06
Caylan's utter minimalism leaves one with the feeling, mostly, of frosty dispassion.
11/16/06
Like Cassavetes' lead roles, Ceylan's is boorish and repellent, admirable only in his stubborn resolve, his physical power, and occasional flashes of absurdity and pathos.
11/14/06
Superb, utterly natural performances all around ensure that there's not a false emotional moment in all of "Climates.
11/13/06
[The Film's] most powerful forces are confused, unstoppable desires.
11/11/06
It's minimalist cinema that turns on subtle emotion rather than narrative and demands the audience's full attention.
11/09/06
The things Ceylan sees in sharpest relief lie beyond the reach of any digital camera. I am talking about the hairline fissures that can form in even the most seemingly rock-solid relationship, and how such a relationship might end.
11/09/06
[It] makes Mr. Ceylan’s career a subject for further serious study.
11/08/06
Top CriticLike all good art, it evokes a supranational affinity. And there is an unsurprising paradox: this drama of personal uncertainties is lodged in a certainty of form.
11/03/06
Top CriticThe accumulative power is rather striking, because of -- rather than despite -- the sparseness.
10/31/06
Top CriticThe tightly rolled film contains no melodramatic filler, and Ceylan’s clear-eyed performance is nothing short of brave.
10/29/06
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
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