Climates
Starring: Nuri Bilge Ceylan,
Ebru Ceylan, Nazan Kirilmis
Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
The film: When Climates premiered at last year's Cannes Film Festival, the focus fell mostly on how its middle-aged director and his young wife play a middle-aged university professor and his young wife whose mismatched marriage is slowly cast asunder by infidelity and personality clashes. Even after the Turkish film won the festival's Grand Jury prize, observers still pored over it, looking for evidence of art imitating life.
Climates is a brutally frank study of human relationships that lays bare the cynicism and longing that build and burn matrimonial bonds. This is brilliantly embodied in the brutish, chauvinistic Isa (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) and his long-suffering wife Bahar (Ebru Ceylan).