Climates, a study of a very flawed, ill tempered middle-aged man, stars director Nuri Bilge Ceylan as Isa and Ebru Ceylan, his real life spouse, as wife Bahar. This existentialist observation tracks a couple's broken marriage with an unrelentless, unflinching eye. With poetic use of landscape and a painful visual rendering of loneliness and loss, Climates reminds the viewer of a Michelangelo Antonioni masterpiece. Ceylan probes the couple's everyday behavior, the fragility of human relationships and the often-elusive nature of happiness. The story takes place over three seasons; summer, autumn and winter. It begins on a sweltering vacation on the Aegean coast, where the relationship between Isa and Bahar bursts into flames as hot as the summer temperature. He is self-absorbed, selfish and inattentive. She is detached and juvenile. Long silences and repressed emotions become the norm. Bahar returns home alone to Istanbul. Autumn follows as does Isa only to rekindle a long time love affair, perhaps one cause of the break-up. But, when he learns his wife has left for a job in the cold, snowy east, he decides to go win her back. Shot across Turkey, the film achieves new highs for high definition. Climates is a personal film for the director who writes, stars, directs and edits with his signature contemplative touch.