Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Turkey • 2006 • A crowning achievement by a contemporary master.
Isa and Bahar have been together for a while. Holidaying by the seaside, the weight of their history is felt in their silences, in stolen glances. Isa has been secretly seeing another woman, and Bahar knows it. At dinner they drink too much wine, and Bahar returns to Istanbul, alone. Fall arrives, then winter—Bahar takes a job on a film set. Isa visits her, to apologize. But it is too late.
Starring the director and his wife and frequent collaborator Ebru Ceylan in acting roles, Climates plumbs the existential mysteries of its characters through durational aesthetics, enveloping the spectator in a heightened sensorial realm. The fourth film from Palme d’Or-winning Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Winter Sleep) premiered at BFI London, Mar del Plata; Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, where it won Best Director; and Cannes, where it won the FIPRESCI Prize. Climates is a New York Times Critic’s Pick.
Nuri Bilge Ceylan • Turkey • 2014
Cappadocia, present day. Aydin, a retired actor, runs a small hotel, where he lives with beautiful young wife Nihal and his recently divorced sister. Growingly restless in this provincial region, Nihal busies herself with small philanthropic projects; Aydin, m...
Lars von Trier • 2003 • Denmark-Switzerland-Belgium-France • Lars von Trier challenges his mentor.
Documents the re-making of Jørgen Leth's classic short film The Perfect Human through a maddening maze of obst...
Hong Sang-soo • South Korea • 2012 • A breezy, humorous tale of love, lust, and misunderstanding.
A sleepy seaside village in South Korea. Following an argument with her mother, aspiring screenwriter Wonju...
