Synopsis
Man was made to be happy for simple reasons and unhappy for even simpler ones – just as he is born for simple reasons and dies for even simpler ones... Isa and Bahar are two lonely figures dragged through the ever-changing climate of their inner selves in pursuit of a happiness that no longer belongs to them.
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Cast
- Ebru CeylanBahar
- Nuri Bilge CeylanIsa
- Nazan KesalSerap
- Mehmet EryılmazMehmet
- Arif AsçiArif
- Can ÖzbaturGuven
- Ufuk BayraktarTaksici
- Fatma Ceylanİsa'nın Annesi
- Emin Ceylanİsa'nın Babası
- Apo DemirkubuzAktör
Recommendations
- 91
Entertainment Weekly
Exquisitely structured, pitiless study of a middle-aged man trapped in a stagnant emotional weather pattern. - 83
The A.V. Club
Though Climates lacks "Distant's" haunted, poetic melancholy, it has a vivid, sensual texture that's unmistakably Ceylan's. He's one of those rare directors who doesn't need a credit for identification. - 80
Village Voice
A terrific movie in the Antonioni tradition, Climates confirms 47-year-old Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan as one of the world's most accomplished filmmakers--handling the end of a relationship and the cloud of human confusion rising from its wreckage as if the subject had never before been attempted. - 80
The New York Times
This 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. - 75
New York Post
As with "Distant," the dialogue is minimal, the takes are long, the narrative is laconic (too much so for many viewers, I imagine) and the cinematography is painterly. - 70
Salon
Contrary to what you may read elsewhere, Climates is not a masterpiece, a word that gets pompously thrown around a lot at pictures few paying customers actually want to see. It is, rather, a meticulous study of a crumbling relationship, marked by many luminous small moments and a startling interruption of violent eroticism. - 63
New York Daily News
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. - 60
Variety
Immaculately shot and composed as always, and moving at Ceylan's usual measured pace, this one is slightly enlivened by more likable perfs and a trim 98-minute running time.
