Dress warm for this chilly dissection of the irreconcilable gulf between men and women. Acutely observed, artfully executed, and grimly funny.
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02/09/07
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: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 CriticThe work of a film-maker who has established absolute mastery over his cinematic idiom.
02/09/07
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 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 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 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 CriticThis 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
As a study of male weakness, Climates hits at the bone but its formal beauty and dry humour help soften the blow.
09/23/06
The pitch-perfect direction and the crisp but lonely images create an uncomfortable and awkward intimacy...
03/15/07
Has occasional moments of quiet beauty but is just as often frustratingly inert.
02/08/07
[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
A masterpiece of craftsmanship that fails completely on the thematic front.
09/27/07
Caylan's utter minimalism leaves one with the feeling, mostly, of frosty dispassion.
11/16/06
A moody and sobering portrait of the end of a romantic relationship between an older man and a younger woman.
10/14/06
A slow, deliberate and often achingly beautiful film about how we often keep at arm’s length that which we most love.
03/16/07
A missed-love story with people you don't care about.
05/22/06
Top Criticanyone 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
[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
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