Hailed as "the only masterpiece of the [2006 Cannes] festival" by the New York Foundation for the Arts, Climates is the story of a searing relationship between a man and a woman (played by the director and his wife, Ebru Ceylan) that becomes a psychological portrait of an insecure man. At the close of her rave review, New York Times critic Manohla Dargis compares Ceylan to Michelangelo Antonioni, commenting that "while [Ceylan’s] films are similarly personal, they're more accessible… The mysteries of his work are those of the heart, the head, the soul."