Written and directed by the Turkish director of UZAK, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Climates is the winner of the Fipresci Critics Award at Cannes last year and also was The Times Critics choice at the London Film Festival last November.

It's the study of a romance and is perfect for Valentines' week - well some might say, perhaps not so perfect given the message of the film is that the path to true love is sometimes a rocky one. It's a perfectly nuanced and quietly assured story of the break-up of a relationship between a young female TV researcher Bahar (Ebru Ceylan) and an older man Isa (played by the writer/director Nuri Bilge Ceylan).

At the start of the film, the couple are together on holiday in Kas. They go out for the night with another couple. Older man Isa decides at the end of the evening that things are not working as they used to between them. The age difference worries him and he thinks they have different interests. He suggests it might be better if they have time apart and encourages Bahar to leave him even though she would rather not initially.

Back in Istanbul, Isa begins to see an old flame Serap (Nazan Kirilmis), but it's Bahar that he misses and soon he realises he may have made a ghastly mistake in breaking up with his former love. The trouble is - will she still have feelings for him or will she have moved on ?

Climates isn't out to provide you with flashy drama and massive over-dramatic arguments, it merely shows as is often the case in real-life relationships that doubt can be a killer of any relationship and it reveals how sometimes thoughts are best kept to one's self unless you're truly sure about the path that you want to take. Some may feel that's a hard message to swallow in Valentines' week and may certainly not wish to see the film with a loved one in case they get ideas but certainly this is an intelligent drama that hopefully won't leave you questioning your own relationships with others.