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.
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02/09/07
Climates (2006)
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Reviews Counted:11
Fresh:9
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.1/10
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
1 - 11 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticThe work of a film-maker who has established absolute mastery over his cinematic idiom.
02/09/07
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 CriticDress warm for this chilly dissection of the irreconcilable gulf between men and women. Acutely observed, artfully executed, and grimly funny.
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 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 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 CriticIt's minimalist cinema that turns on subtle emotion rather than narrative and demands the audience's full attention.
11/09/06
Top CriticNuri Bilge Ceylan's film paints a haunting portrait of existential solitude, one in which the images speak louder and often more forcefully than do any of the words.
10/26/06
Top CriticA missed-love story with people you don't care about.
05/22/06
Top CriticAll this technique is in the service of very little at the end of the day.
05/22/06
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