Climates

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.

This is a movie with bleak and wintry insights into relationships, and the unchallenged assumptions about how relationships supposedly define what we are...

The concept is to express what the characters are feeling better than they can, through images (mostly long, static takes) and sound, with minimal dialogue and even less narrative.

The emotional estrangement between Isa and Bahar is conveyed through precise compositions, while their protean states of mind are reflected by the surrounding landscapes and ever-changing weather conditions.

His carefully structured film is visually and aurally beautiful and amounts to a devastating portrait of a lonely relationship and a chillingly selfish man.