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University professor Isa (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) and his lover, Bahar (Ebru Ceylan), are on vacation together when they break up. She returns to Istanbul by herself, and later, Isa resumes a relationship with a former lover. Upon hearing that she is in the East filming a TV project, Isa travels to that part of the country to track her down and perhaps mend the rift between them.
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Aesthetically sound and solidly acted, but will nonetheless ring hollow for some viewers.

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Richard Brody New Yorker Under the guise of the universal theme of love and its mysteries, Ceylan offers a glimpse of harsh and unresolved local particulars. Nov 3, 2014 Full Review Hap Erstein Atlanta Journal-Constitution There is an undeniable beauty to some of [director] Ceylan's imagery, but as drama goes, this film is simply too inert for general audience tastes. Rated: C May 12, 2007 Full Review John Monaghan Detroit Free Press As much as I respect Climates, I can sympathize with viewers who will balk at the film's pretensions and glacial pacing. Rated: 3/4 Mar 23, 2007 Full Review PJ Nabarro One Room With A View With Climates, especially its masterful opening, is there a more truthful depiction of the irritations and acts of distancing that herald the early stages of a break-up? Rated: 4/5 Dec 2, 2018 Full Review Dan Jardine Cinemania I will not soon forget Ceylan's cinematic haikus Rated: 85/100 Jan 14, 2010 Full Review Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Sizzles when it explores the fragile nature of relationships and the difficulty of connecting with the opposite sex. Rated: A Oct 2, 2007 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Like all of Ceylan's films, a deeply personal study which is not for all tastes. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Audience Member A great film that shows a complexity of a relationship. By having two different scene in the beginning and end of the film, Summer and Winter, and change in climates won't change the reality of our life. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/24/23 Full Review Audience Member In simplicity lies complexity. Ceylan has moved from urban alienation to sentimental alienation through a no less than simple plot about an unsuccessful marriage. So why is it a cinema master's work? Ceylan understands the irrationality of human impulses and how moments drag endlessly and walk slowly during uncomfortable silences and individual reflections. He spends time putting you in the context. Such context actually works better if you can relate to it. If you can't, try emulating it. Watch the film alone during a winter evening with a cup of hot chocolate and a rested mind. You'll notice how the little things and details of life normally blocked by noise come up to the surface when everything is standing still. This very peculiar law does not only apply to inert objects. We are the same. In those dragging silences, stares, laughs, a smoking cigar, confused eyes, killer stares, all acquire a meaning and reveal things about our deepest thoughts that would pass unnoticed under agitated circumstances. In this way, Ceylan achieves striking realism. The beauty of landscapes helps to contrast the rotten state of their personalities; the peacefulness of the scenarios contrast their inner lack of peace. By the end, we realize that nothing is what it seems. Even if we may sometimes feel like the perfect jurors of the world, we cannot blame anybody even if we may disapprove certain actions committed by other people, because nobody is perfect. We are left, thus, with an ending difficult to decompose rationally but extremely easy to understand emotionally. 97/100 Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member gr8 pic about a marriage falling apart Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Audience Member One Of The Simplest Films I've Ever Watch, Nuri Bilge Ceylan Is an Exceptional Director. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member My third Ceylan film and this follows the trail of my two previous flicks from the guy. This is slow, this is realistic, this is very pretty. He does neat things with the camera, original and clever solutions. Pretty scenery at times and a story that is semi-interesting and pretty realistic. This film is all right but a bit boring. There are not much tensity here or interesting scenes. Pretty scenes lifts it a whole lot, but it's not enough for me this time. A good film, that should have been more gripping. The characters are not likeable in a way, it's like watching relationships that you don't care about. I care about the camera work, though - it's fantastic. 7 out of 10 scooters. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis University professor Isa (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) and his lover, Bahar (Ebru Ceylan), are on vacation together when they break up. She returns to Istanbul by herself, and later, Isa resumes a relationship with a former lover. Upon hearing that she is in the East filming a TV project, Isa travels to that part of the country to track her down and perhaps mend the rift between them.
Director
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Producer
Zeynep Özbatur Atakan
Screenwriter
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Production Co
CO Productions
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Turkish
Release Date (Streaming)
May 9, 2017
Box Office (Gross USA)
$120.0K
Runtime
1h 38m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital