|
|
 |
|
“Certainly among the half-dozen finest films of the past few years” (Robin Wood, Artforum), CLIMATES was chosen by over twenty critics in their top ten of 2006 selections in the recent Indiewire Critics Poll. Bringing a new complexity and formal mastery to his already formidable oeuvre - the film feels like an artistic summation - Ceylan also ups the ante by starring his wife and himself as a married couple whose relationship is coming apart. He's an egoistic university professor, she's an unhappy TV art director. The stunning opening sequences chart the tensions and fissures in their marriage as they vacation among the ruins in seaside Kas. In the second section, he looks up an old flame, the self-possessed, sexually avid Serap. In the final third, he travels to a distant, snowy village in eastern Turkey where his wife is working on a television show, hoping for reconciliation. Ceylan was always a master of observation, but the precision of composition, tone, setting, and performances in this new film surpass all his previous achievements. In each of the film's three sections, at least one sequence is worthy of classic status: a nighttime al fresco dinner with friends, roiling with marital resentment; a bout of rough sex on the floor, shot in one painful long take; and the husband's resting his head in a drawer after coming to a truce with the discomfort of his rural hotel room. The film may adhere to a seasonal scheme for its three parts, but Ceylan is interested more in climates of the psyche, of the soul. “A terrific movie in the Antonioni tradition. One of the ten best films of 2006” (J. Hoberman, The Village Voice).
Please note: Special ticket prices apply.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|