Press

  • 'While some documentaries use biography as a window into culture, A Cooler Climate takes the other route, initially teasing viewers with sweeping statements on Afghan culture in 1960 before narrowing its focus to Ivory’s coming of age.'

    GQ (Raymond Ang)

  • 'The film uses Ivory's 16mm vintage footage, his family's extensive archives of mementoes and photographs... to tell a story that feels so completely cinematic I was sad when it came to an end.'

    Mime (E. Nina Rothe)

  • 'Every year, the NYFF has a documentary that’s so niche I hesitate to recommend it even if I rather enjoyed the work.'

    Roger Ebert (Odie Henderson)

  • 'Afghanistan gave Ivory the escape of a migrant in search of anonymity, allowing him to unveil his identity and begin his process of reinvention.'

    Little White Lies (Charles Bramesco)

  • 'There is a certain old-fashioned pleasure to be gleaned from Ivory's ruminations on a life that is clearly more interesting than he allows himself to reveal.'

    Filmkrant (Wilfred Okiche)

  • 'A Cooler Climate is a gem, also thanks to Alexandre Desplat's music, never exaggerated and shouty as in much of today's cinema. A journey around the world and within inner worlds, which will not fail to enchant all those who wish to undertake it accompanied by the gentle and passionate camera of this giant of cinematography.'

    Sapereambiente (Francesca Romana Buffetti)

  • 'As well as being a form of time travel back to 1960s Kabul - becomes more and more a sly memoire of Ivory himself as it progresses; about the young man he was and the older man he would become.'

    The Herald (Teddy Jamieson)

  • 'A Cooler Climate is a subtle, intelligent, fascinating and brilliant documentary. Under the pretext of recovering an old unfinished film, his trip to Afghanistan in 1960, Ivory weaves a radiant documentary about a vanished world.'

    Noticias de Gipuzkoa (Juan Zapater)