CLIMATES [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 2006
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Climates (Ikimler) is internationally acclaimed writer-director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s follow-up to his Cannes multi-award winner Distant. Beautifully drawn and meticulously observed, the film vividly recalls the cinema of Italian master Michelangelo Antonio 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 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 television production 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 of human relationships.
• Cast: Ebru Ceylan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Nazan Kirilmis, Mehmet Eryilmaz, Arif Asçi, Can Ozbatur, Ufuk Bayraktar, Fatma Ceylan, Emin Ceylan, Semra Yilmaz, Ceren Olcay, Abdullah Demirkubuz, Feridun Koc, Zafer Saka
• Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
• Runtime: 1:37
• Company: Zeitgeist Films, Pyramide Distribution, Eurimages
• Media Format: Movie