Product Description

Winner of the prestigious Fipresci Award at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival, CLIMATES is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan s sublime follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner DISTANT. Beautifully drawn and meticulously observed, the film vividly recalls the cinema of Italian master Michelangelo Antonioni with its poetic use of landscape and the incisive, exquisitely visual rendering of loneliness, loss and the often-elusive nature of happiness. During a sweltering summer vacation on the Aegean coast, the relationship between middle-aged professor Isa (played by Ceylan himself) and his younger, television producer girlfriend Bahar (the luminous Ebru Ceylan, Ceylan s real-life wife) brutally implodes. Back in Istanbul that fall, Isa rekindles a torrid affair with a previous lover. But when he learns that Bahar has left the city for a job in the snowy East, he follows her there to win her back. Boasting subtly powerful performances, heart-stoppingly stunning cinematography (Ceylan s first work in high definition) and densely textured sound design, CLIMATES is the Turkish filmmaker s most gorgeous rumination yet on the fragility and complexity of human relationships.


SPECIAL FEATURES
Stunning new anamorphic transfer, created from hi-def elements The Making of Climates Climates at Cannes Interview: Director/actor Nuri Bilge Ceylan and actor Ebru Ceylan U.S. Theatrical Trailer Optional English subtitles


2006 97 minutes Turkey Color In Turkish with optional English subtitles 1.95:1 theatrical aspect ratio Not Rated

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #24257 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-06-26
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
• Original language: Turkish
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 97 minutes

Review
"It's one of the great movies on the vicissitudes of love, commitment, and attraction. " --Wesley Morris - Boston Globe

Review
"Exquisitely structured, pitiless study of a middle-aged man trapped in a stagnant emotional weather pattern." --Lisa Schwarzbaum - Entertainment Weekly

Review
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. --Michael Phillips - Chicago Tribune

Customer Reviews

At times hard to watch
After being highly impressed with the film Uzak I was looking forward to watching this one. The film is based around a crumbling relationship between husband and wife. The husband being somewhat older than his wife and previously involved in an extra marital affair. The film begins with the couple on holiday, the intensity is tangible from the very off as both parties seem to be more awaiting the moment when they should leave each other but delay it on the pretext of a "well you first"

The relationship crumbles and they both go their separate ways, the husband to the woman who he had a relationship with the wife, to her work in a TV company.

The film is dark, at many times depressing as it examines the collapse and reconstruction of a relationship. Ceylan has hit upon a recipe that many French directors try at but fail miserably. He depicts realism through his lack of extra background lighting, music and minimal dialect. It brings the viewer into the film, makes the viewer care about the characters, sympathise with them and examine the film. French films try hard at this but end up with pointless sex scenes and even more pointless dialect that just bores and annoys the viewer.

Recomended but not as good as Uzak.

Love Gets You Twisted
There is no question that in Nuri Bilge Ceylan we are seeing a first-rate filmmaker in the prime of his career. His many influences have each found their place in his work: with DISTANT, and now CLIMATES, we are seeing original works that transcend the masters that inspired them.

Those predecessors: Antonioni, Bresson, Tati, and above all, Tarkovsky, are all champions of the long take. Of those, only Tati was able to act in his own work and maintain control (and let's not forget how ABSENT Tati was from the later, superior, Hulot films). I bring this up because Ceylan--a formidable actor and charismatic on-camera presence--does not quite succeed, here, in controlling the pace of ALL his long takes. The fact that some shots work very well is impressive, but a filmmaker this good ought to have everything working at all times. And, alas, not everything does. Not, at least, in every shot in which he is present.

Still, there is much to be prized in this evocation of love as one of many situations in life that, quite simply, leaves you helpless and stupid.

There is a scene in a television production van in which Ceylan, as Asa, is pouring his heart out to his girlfriend. Each time he comes to something profoundly personal, one or another of the many crew members enter the van to deposit equipment. It is a painfully funny and perfectly played scene. It is so good, it alone would make this film worth watching.

God willing, this director will be with us for quite a while. His being Turkish does not help when it comes to his getting the recognition he deserves. But watch this guy, because he is one of the greats in the making.

I liked it better than Uzak
Good, authentic, funny (yes, there are moments) - I look forward to his next film...