Win tickets to the Time Out Critics' Choice screening of 'Climates'

We've got 20 pairs of tickets to give away to this special LFF screening of Nuri Bilge Ceylan's new film.

Oct  9 2006

Each year, Time Out picks out one film at the London Film Festival to celebrate as a Time Out Critics' Choice screening. This year, we've picked Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan's superb film, 'Climates' ('Iklimer'), and we're giving away 20 pairs of tickets to the film's special screening at the festival which will be attended by Ceylan himself.

Fans of 'Uzak' ('Distant'), which played at the Festival in 2003, will welcome the director's latest film, which was cruelly omitted from the prizes at this year's Cannes, where it nevertheless emerged as a firm favourite among critics. Those same fans will again recognise Ceylan's pared-down, quiet style of storytelling, which finds magnificence in the everyday and doesn't allow one single word or action to stray from a complete vision of what it means to be living and loving today in Ceylan's home city of Istanbul.

'Climates' presents the break-up of a metropolitan couple, university lecturer Isa and television art director Bahar (played by Ceylan and his wife Ebru), who we first meet on a Turkish beach not long before Isa suggests that they should separate. From there, Ceylan explores with acute observation and stunning photography Isa's mixed, complex and utterly recognisable reaction to the split. Ceylan's stories are small, his films are modest, their impact devastating. If their prevailing mood is disappointment (specifically male disappointment), it's because Ceylan is a storyteller who recognises and investigates the great potential for loneliness and self-destruction within us all. His films are personal projects in the best sense; Ceylan explores, with brutal honesty, that which he knows best: himself.

We have 20 pairs of tickets to give away for the screening of 'Climates' at the Odeon West End at 6.30pm on Monday October 23.

To enter a draw for the tickets, please send an SAE (no later than Thursday October 19) to 'LFF Climates Screening', Time Out Online, Universal House, 251 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 7AB. The winners will then be picked at random.

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