''Climates'' ( tr, İklimler) is a 2006 Turkish drama film directed by

Nuri Bilge Ceylan Nuri Bilge Ceylan (, born 26 January 1959) is a Turkish photographer, filmmaker and actor best known for the Palme d'Or winning '' Winter Sleep'' (2014). Early life Ceylan was born in Istanbul on 26 January 1959. His interest in photography sta ...

. The film charts the deteriorating relationship between a professional

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couple, İsa and Bahar, played by Ceylan and his wife

Ebru Ceylan Ebru Ceylan (, born 26 January 1976) is a Turkish photographer, actress, screenwriter and art director. She is married to collaborator Nuri Bilge Ceylan. Ebru Yapıcı was born in Ankara and studied film and television at Marmara University and ...

. It was Ceylan's first film shot on High-definition video.

Plot

The film starts on a summer holiday in

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, where the couple are barely talking. İsa is taking pictures of ancient monuments for a perpetually unfinished thesis for the university class he teaches; Bahar watches. At the beach she falls asleep and dreams that he is smothering her in sand. After rehearsing his speech while Bahar is swimming, Isa tells her that he wants to break up. While riding back to the city on a motorbike she suddenly covers his eyes with her hands, which causes the bike to crash, although both of them avoid serious injury. The couple go their separate ways and Bahar tells him not to call. As fall follows summer, back in

, İsa makes contact again with a woman, Serap, with whom he cheated on Bahar before and who is in a relationship with an acquaintance of his. Winter arrives and İsa dreams of a holiday in the sun, but instead flies to

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, the snowy eastern province of

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, where Bahar is working as an art director filming a TV series on location. He tries to win her back, but she rejects his advances. Later, she comes to his hotel room and stays overnight, but in the morning he flies off alone.

Cast

* Ebru Ceylan as Bahar * Nuri Bilge Ceylan as İsa * Nazan Kırılmış as Serap * Mehmet Eryılmaz as Mehmet * Arif Aşçı as Arif * Can Özbatur as Güven

Technique

The film features long takes of head shots, and poetic landscapes. The dialogue has long silences during which casual sounds are highlighted, such as the sound of a woman drawing on a cigarette.

Reception

''Climates'' has received positive reviews from critics. On

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, the film has a rating of 73%, based on 66 reviews, with an average rating of 6.9/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Aesthetically sound and solidly acted, but will nonetheless ring hollow for some viewers." On

Metacritic Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, TV shows, music albums, video games and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged (a weighted average). Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc ...

, the film has a score of 72 out of 100, based on 25 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". The film was nominated for the

Golden Palm The Palme d'Or (; en, Golden Palm) is the highest prize awarded at the Cannes Film Festival. It was introduced in 1955 by the festival's organizing committee. Previously, from 1939 to 1954, the festival's highest prize was the Grand Prix du Fe ...

at the

2006 Cannes Film Festival The 59th Cannes Film Festival was held from 17 to 28 May 2006. Twenty films from eleven countries were in competition for the Palme d'Or. The President of the Official selection Jury was Wong Kar-wai, the first Chinese director to preside over t ...

, and won the FIPRESCI Award there. Critic Michael Phillips named ''Climates'' the best film of 2006 and, later, the third greatest movie of the decade.Seidman, Rober
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References

External links

Official website
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Web site with trailer
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