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Film Description
Following on from the success of his film Uzak, Ceylan has been lauded for his latest work, Climates, which confirms him as a modern cinematic master. The film is a subtle, nuanced and exquisitely photographed account of a couple's break-up across three seasons, three locations and three climates: summer heat, autumn rain and winter snow. The two lonely figures are dragged through their own ever-changing climate of their inner selves in pursuit of a happiness that no longer belongs to them.
Film Information
| Director | Nuri Bilge Ceylan | ||||
| Starring | Arif Asçi, Ufuk Bayraktar, Ebru Ceylan, Emin Ceylan
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| Genre | World Cinema
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| Country | Turkey | Language | Turkish | Year | 2006 |
DVD Extras
Interviews with Ebru Ceylan and Nuri Bilge Ceylan; Theatrical trailer; Nuri Bilge Ceylan biography; Photo gallery including Turkey cinema scope exhibition
Technical Details
| Certificate | 15 | Length | 100 mins | Label | ART-E | ||
| Cat No | ART342DVD | Format | DVD | Colour | |||
| Region | 2 | Aspect | 1.85:1 Widescreen | ||||
| Subtitles | English. | ||||||
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Review by Pasquale Iannone on 21st May 2007
Undoubtedly one of the finest films of the year, Climates comes after Ceylan's acclaimed Uzak and further develops the director's formally uncompromising vision of male ennui. As Ceylan himself has admitted, “the only worthwhile subject for a film is melancholy”.
The film chronicles the disintegration of the relationship between academic photographer Isa (played by Ceylan himself) and his (considerably younger) girlfriend, TV production designer Bahar (played by Ceylan's wife Ebru). Ceylan's formal approach to Climates, as for Uzak, is quite breathtaking and unmatched in any contemporary European filmmaker. Utilising sequence shots and minimal tracking, each meticulously composed frame is a quiet revelation.
Whilst the film ends in an austere, snow covered landscape, it begins in the blazing sunshine with Isa and Bahar holidaying on Turkey's southern coast. Isa is occupied with photographing a nearby archaeological site whilst Bahar looks on. The camera lingers on her as she gazes out to sea; slowly, tears begin rolling down her bronzed cheeks. The camera is bearing witness to a relationship on the verge of collapse.
Thematically, and in many ways, rhythmically, the film is very much in the tradition of Rossellini's Voyage to Italy and Antonioni's 'tetralogy of alienation' L'Avventura, La Notte, L'Eclisse and Il Deserto Rosso. Isa is a distinctly Antonionian male. Selfish and unsympathetic in the mould of Sandro in L'Avventura, he is outwardly successful and virile yet riven with crippling self-doubt.
Like Sandro, Isa embarks on an empty affair. In a highly ambiguous scene, he indulges in rough sex with Serap, the girlfriend of an acquaintance whom we have seen him meet just hours previously. Isa initially appears to force himself on her. The camera remains static with the couple in medium shot as they tumble to the floor from the sofa.
The film's sound design is also rigorously composed with sounds heightened for effect. Wholly original yet sensitive to its filmic antecedents, this is complex, ravishingly beautiful cinema.
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