Dress warm for this chilly dissection of the irreconcilable gulf between men and women. Acutely observed, artfully executed, and grimly funny.
Comment
02/09/07
Climates (2006)
71
%
Tomatometer
How does the Tomatometer work 
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:09-02-2007
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.
Reviews for Climates
Top CriticFinds 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
Top CriticMaking 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
Top CriticThe work of a film-maker who has established absolute mastery over his cinematic idiom.
02/09/07
Top CriticGoes 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
Top CriticCeylan'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
Top CriticAs an actor, Ceylan has a lugubrious onscreen charm, but as a director he’s not interested in portraying himself in a flattering light.
02/09/07
Top CriticTechnically, 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.
10/12/06
The husband learns nothing, and his monstrous behavior makes the movie relentlessly downbeat.
02/16/07
[It] makes Mr. Ceylan’s career a subject for further serious study.
11/08/06
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
Sizzles when it explores the fragile nature of relationships and the difficulty of connecting with the opposite sex.
10/02/07
All this technique is in the service of very little at the end of the day.
05/22/06
Top CriticWe 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
'Climates' is an emotionally true and devastating rendering of love gone stale.
10/18/06
A missed-love story with people you don't care about.
05/22/06
Top CriticClimates 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
Latest News for Climates
October 26, 2006:
Critical Consensus: "Fire" Blazes; "Scissors" Isn't Sharp Enough; "Saw III" Not Screened: Guess The Tomatometer!
This week at the movies, we've got the return of Jigsaw ("Saw III," starring Tobin Bell), a tale of rebellion in apartheid-era South Africa ("Catch a Fire,"... More...
What’s Hot On RT
Other News
Fresh Links
Featured
RT on YouTube 
Subscribe to RT's YouTube channel and don't miss a second of our cracking video content.
RT on Twitter
Follow Rotten Tomatoes and join us as we tweet about the week's releases.
IGN RSS Feeds