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 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
All this technique is in the service of very little at the end of the day.
05/22/06
Top CriticA missed-love story with people you don't care about.
05/22/06
Top CriticThere really isn't much of a story or script to keep you interested beyond the beautiful visuals.
10/24/06
Give it a pass.
10/28/06
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
Like Ceylan's earlier films, Climates is as gorgeous as it is self-consciously composed, but an hour and 40 minutes is a long time to spend with Isa, forget three seasons.
10/27/06
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
Has occasional moments of quiet beauty but is just as often frustratingly inert.
02/08/07
Caylan's utter minimalism leaves one with the feeling, mostly, of frosty dispassion.
11/16/06
I can only speak for myself, but I couldn't tear my eyes away from this Euro-art train wreck.
09/12/06
An intelligent, handsomely photographed but only intermittently engaging dissection of the doomed relationship between a professor and his much younger lover.
10/27/06
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