December 19, 2002
10 (Ten)
You may have been thinking that there're a difficult situation to live in Iran while president Bush said it as the Axis of Evil country. Yeah, actually it doesn't. Fortunately, Iran has it own celebration for their works on movies when they has been acclaimed and awarded many international prizes. If you may heard before, one of their movie A Taste of Cherry are created by Abbas Kiarostami, a celebrated Iranian movie creator. I have seen a few of his films when it played here at the Jakarta Internation Film Festival several years ago. A few famous of them are The Wind Will Carry Us, Close Up, and And Life Goes On.
About his new film, Ten, openDemocracy wrote:
A film of love, pain, divorce, womanhood and everyday humanity through conversations between a Tehrani woman and the passengers she picks up in her car.Related links:Ten is a great film. Ten car journeys, ten dialogues, ten emotional situations. The result is the most powerful sense of intimacy: a power deriving from the depth of realism achieved. Watching Ten, in contrast to the comfortable contract of voyeurism associated with most film viewing experiences, fact or fiction, one has the slightly uneasy sense of sudden personal involvement. A film supremely sensitive to the impact of some lives on other’s lives, it is as if the spectator is welded into the fabric of the car – the inanimate eavesdropping on the animate.
- Filmref Abbas Kiarostami Works
- An interview on Taste of Cherry
- Abbas Kiarostami on Scarrufi's Web
- In dialogue with Kiarostami
- Abbas Kiarostami on Iranian Movies website
Posted at December 19, 2002 03:14 PM | Movies
