Thursday

I'm not entirely sure how to review Climates, or whether it was good or not. Certainly it was interesting, and compelling, but would I ever need to watch it again? The first five minutes immediately impose upon you the pace of the movie - a shot of a woman's face. There is one line of dialogue, then we remain with the woman, her hair blowing in the wind, as she gradually starts crying. You have to slow down your heart-rate and prepare yourself for what's going to be an hour and a half of people sitting in rooms and not saying anything to each other. You might get very irritated otherwise. There are shocks, however, that startle you out of your sedative state. These I enjoyed the most, and was half-thrilled, half-annoyed by some of the camera perspective tricks. At times the film is painfully sensitive, and perhaps too real to bear (I believe they are actually husband and wife), but it is always brilliantly handled - such as the constant interruptions in the van. Two things that stuck out as unnecessary: turning the music off with the radio (it's been done a thousand times before), and the fade out at the end. Otherwise, I would thoroughly recommend you see this as something totally different from normal film viewing.