Climates

The insecurities of the modern male get a fitting dissection in Ceylan’s powerful study of a disintegrating relationship. Termed “the only masterpiece of the 2006 Cannes Film Festival” (New York Foundation for the Arts), Climates follows a self-involved, brooding academic (Ceylan) and his partner, a television producer (Ebru Ceylan, the director’s actual wife), through several climates and fights, from a spectacularly slow-burning beach break-up to a final attempt at reconciliation in a wintry mountain area. In between times, our “hero” attempts to reunite with an ex-lover. “Subtle, substantial, and sublimely beautiful” (Time Out London), Climates earned comparisons to the films of Antonioni in The New York Times, only "more accessible.... The mysteries of his work are those of the heart, the head, the soul.”