Iklimler 2006

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: 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. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: [It] makes Mr. Ceylan's career a subject for further serious study. Read more

Andrea Gronvall, Chicago Reader: The husband learns nothing, and his monstrous behavior makes the movie relentlessly downbeat. Read more

Jeff Shannon, Seattle Times: One of the most perceptive and turbulent love stories in recent memory. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: This is a somber work -- Ceylan's movies have drawn comparisons to Antonioni for their probing of alienation and to Bresson for their unadorned style. But Ceylan has his moments of sly humor. Read more

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. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: A photographer long before he became a director, Ceylan lets his impeccable compositions tell the stories that his sparse dialogue never suggests, and his ambient soundtrack completes the picture. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: In this new film, the camera captures the utter need roiling inside its lovers. The prevailing conditions are always subject to change. And whether to move on to newer, better climes seems like a terminal predicament of the soul. Read more

Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: It's minimalist cinema that turns on subtle emotion rather than narrative and demands the audience's full attention. Read more

Michael Booth, Denver Post: [The] main character spends an inordinate amount of time brooding and staring off into the distance, alternating with scenes of that character's girlfriend brooding and staring off into the distance. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: [An] exquisitely structured, pitiless study of a middle-aged man trapped in a stagnant emotional weather pattern. Read more

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. Read more

Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: The things Ceylan sees in sharpest relief lie beyond the reach of any digital camera. I am talking about the hairline fissures that can form in even the most seemingly rock-solid relationship, and how such a relationship might end. Read more

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. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The accumulative power is rather striking, because of -- rather than despite -- the sparseness. Read more

Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Like Ceylan's earlier films, Climates is as gorgeous as it is self-consciously composed, but an hour and 40 minutes is a long time to spend with Isa, forget three seasons. Read more

Dave Calhoun, Time Out: Finds magnificence in the everyday and doesn't allow one single word or action to stray from a complete vision of what it means to be living and loving today in [director Nuri Bilge] Ceylan's home city of Istanbul. Read more

Derek Elley, Variety: All this technique is in the service of very little at the end of the day. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: A terrific movie in the Antonioni tradition, Climates confirms 47-year-old Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan as one of the world's most accomplished filmmakers. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: We realize that this romance, like the beautiful land, is doomed almost inevitably to earthquake fissures, to irreversible change. But rather than making us despondent, Climates leaves us peacefully philosophical. Read more