Climates

Climates (İklimler, 2006) is a drama from Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan that you can watch online on iFILM. He tells the story of a dying relationship almost without dialogue — through heat, rain and snow.

Isa is a middle-aged academic; Bahar, a younger woman who works in television. Their affair collapses on a summer coast and drags on through autumn and winter as Isa wavers between freedom and trying to win her back. Ceylan and his real-life wife Ebru Ceylan play the couple, which lends the awkward, intimate moments an almost documentary honesty. The camera lingers on faces; the silences carry more than the lines. It took the FIPRESCI prize at Cannes. Slow, cold cinema for viewers who prize mood over plot. Stream Climates (2006) online on iFILM.