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Climates

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 25 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Drama | Foreign
Written by: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Directed by: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Release Date:
Theatrical: October 27, 2006
DVD: June 26, 2007
Running Time: 98 minutes, Color
Origin: Turkey / France
Language(s): Turkish (with English titles)
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nazan Kirilmis, Mehmet Eryilmaz, Arif Asçi, Can Ozbatur, Ufuk Bayraktar, and Fatma Ceylan
A gorgeous rumination on the fragility and complexity of human relationships. (Zeitgeist Films)
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FILM: Distant
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Boston Globe Wesley Morris
It's one of the great movies on the vicissitudes of love, commitment, and attraction.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
The beauty of the Turkish film Climates, a small but indelible masterpiece, is more than skin-deep. No 2006 film meant more to me. It's as sharp and lovely as the best Chekhov short stories.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
Exquisitely structured, pitiless study of a middle-aged man trapped in a stagnant emotional weather pattern.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Marta Barber
Ceylan examines human relationships with an eye for details and a soul for the big picture.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
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.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
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.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
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.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Scott Foundas
It's something of a family affair -- only this time, instead of casting his relatives in the leading roles, Ceylan has cast himself and his real-life wife, Ebru, as Isa and Bahar. And if, in the hands of a lesser filmmaker, such a decision might foster a mood of lurid home-movie voyeurism, both Ceylans are such commanding and subtly expressive performers that any charges of nepotism here are as erroneous as in the storied collaborations of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
An intimate drama that views the deterioration of a relationship from the inside out. Moving from summer through fall and concluding in winter, it's minimalist cinema that turns on subtle emotion rather than narrative and demands the audience's full attention.
Read Full Review >Empire Patrick Peters
Making 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.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
It's more admirable than enjoyable, beautifully crafted and artfully unpleasant.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Walter Addiego
This is contemplative moviemaking, with its deliberate pace, often static scenes and emphasis on direct sound. The director keeps the dialogue pared to the bone.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea
Winner of a prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May, the quiet, solemn Climates is a bit like those towering ancient columns that Isa photographs to show his class. The fragmented architecture is beautiful and striking, but also extremely dated.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
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.
Read Full Review >The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann
Admittedly, the setting does heighten interest, but this film is much more than an ideational travelogue.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
We 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.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
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.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
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.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
What is interesting is Ceylan's depiction of life among the Turkish upper-middle classes, a world rarely seen in international art-house cinema outside his own films.
Read Full Review >Variety Derek Elley
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.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Duane Byrge
Under Ceylan's dull direction and the equally leaden editing, technical contributions are lackluster and straight-forward. Similar to the script, they only serve to distend an undernourished central story.
Read Full Review >Premiere Aaron Hillis
Technically, 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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
The husband learns nothing, and his monstrous behavior makes the movie relentlessly downbeat. No one, including the viewer, achieves catharsis.
Read Full Review >Film Threat Phil Hall
The film is professionally made but a thorough bore at every imaginable level.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.5 (out of 10) based on 7 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Brian W. gave it a5:
A major disappointment. I loved Distant, which was the work of a major, mature filmmaker. I didn't expect Ceylan to remake Distant, but I was surprised by the shallowness of the lead characters. The woman whines throughout, and the man just comes off as unpleasant and dim. A lovely final shot almost makes up for the monotony, but this film was an extreme disappointment for me.
Ali E. gave it a6:
Mostly seen as a disappointment in Turkey, Climates tells a much more low-scale story compared to Ceylan's previous films. I liked it as a story of a pathetic man, but it's really nothing more. So there's no need to take it any more seriously. Nuri Bilge's real-life wife Ebru Ceylan is great though as an actress.
richard k. gave it a9:
Having seen Distant and enjoyed it, I was eager to see Ceylan's newest film. This is quite a beautiful and very involving film. Visually it is stunning and it is quite real in every aspect of it. The couple--the director and his real life wife--are involved in a finished relationship that neither can fully release each other from and it makes for a wonderful film.
