
In Turkey, the middle-age University Professor Isa and his younger wife Bahar, who works in television, are spending summer vacation in Kas. After a couple of days, Isa decides to separate from Bahar since they do not communicate with each other. Bahar returns to Istanbul alone and then she travels to the countryside to work in a new project. Meanwhile Isa meets his former lover Serap with his friend Guven and later he rapes her in her house. Then he travels to meet Bahar and... (Full plot summary below)
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In Turkey, the middle-age University Professor Isa and his younger wife Bahar, who works in television, are spending summer vacation in Kas. After a couple of days, Isa decides to separate from Bahar since they do not communicate with each other. Bahar returns to Istanbul alone and then she travels to the countryside to work in a new project. Meanwhile Isa meets his former lover Serap with his friend Guven and later he rapes her in her house. Then he travels to meet Bahar and propose her to move in together again. What will be her decision?
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| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe 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. |
| Seattle TimesJeff ShannonOne of the most perceptive and turbulent love stories in recent memory. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisIt's one of the great movies on the vicissitudes of love, commitment, and attraction. |
| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumExquisitely structured, pitiless study of a middle-aged man trapped in a stagnant emotional weather pattern. |
| New YorkerRichard BrodyUnder the guise of the universal theme of love and its mysteries, Ceylan offers a glimpse of harsh and unresolved local particulars. |
| Film4Anton BitelDress warm for this chilly dissection of the irreconcilable gulf between men and women. Acutely observed, artfully executed, and grimly funny. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThe carefully composed exteriors are the only clue to the roiling emotions underneath. |
| Miami HeraldMarta BarberCeylan examines human relationships with an eye for details and a soul for the big picture. |
| The NationStuart Klawans[The Film's] most powerful forces are confused, unstoppable desires. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyA director of noncompromising art films, Ceylan has made an existential meditation on solitude and the fleeting nature of happiness that in its detailed mise-en-scene and precise use of physical space recalls Antonioni and Angelopoulos |