Iklimler (2006)

User Rating:

7.2/10   

Director:

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Writer:

Nuri Bilge Ceylan (writer)

Release Date:

20 October 2006 (Turkey)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A dowdy university instructor Isa is an inattentive husband to his younger, TV-business wife Bahar. Self-absorbed and selfish, Isa only communicates in the most rudimentary way, while she, similarly, detaches into crying jags and juvenile behavior. |

Plot Keywords:

Thesis | Winter | Fall | Seasons | Snow

Awards:

7 wins & 2 nominations

Cast

Ebru Ceylan	...	Bahar
Nuri Bilge Ceylan	...	Isa
Nazan Kirilmis	...	Serap
Mehmet Eryilmaz	...	Mehmet
Arif Asçi	...	Arif
Can Ozbatur	...	Guven
Ufuk Bayraktar	...	Taxi Driver
Fatma Ceylan	...	Isa's Mother
Emin Ceylan	...	Isa's Father
Semra Yilmaz	...	Semra
Ceren Olcay	...	TV Series Actress
Abdullah Demirkubuz	...	TV Series Actor
Feridun Koc	...	TV Series Director
Zafer Saka	...	TV Series Crew Member

Also Known As:

Climates (International: English title)
Iklimer (France) (festival title)
Les climats (France)
Seasons (International: English title)
The Climate (USA) (festival title)

Runtime:

101 min | Turkey:97 min

Country:

Turkey | France

Language:

Turkish

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

UK:15 | USA:Unrated | Argentina:13 | Portugal:M/16 | Germany:16

Filming Locations:

Agri, Turkey

Company:

Pyramide Films

I'll largely remember Climates as the movie, it looks absolutely flat-out stunning

Ceylan's previous feature, Distant, won the Grand Prix at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival; its glowing reception cemented his status as a major contemporary auteur. In Climates, Ceylan takes us to stunning locations all across Turkey in what may be his most personal film to date - in addition to directing and starring, he also wrote and edited. Filmed with his signature contemplative style, it is a highly subdued, deliberately-paced work that conveys more through silence than through exposition. The cinematography by Gökhan Tiryaki achieves a new high for high-definition video with its refined, poetic images, while Ceylan's precise, beautiful compositions give the film a characteristically elegiac tone. This achingly poignant film subtly captures the emotional tremors that ripple through a fallow relationship.