Ten (2002) (aka 10)
Abbas Kiarostami
Persian
“You are wholesalers. We are retailers”
There are not more than a handful of directors who have the special ability to look beyond the boundaries and hop over the conventions of the medium. Abbas Kiarostami, with his radically fresh perspective and consistent streak of “different” films, undoubtedly is in the cream of that list. Read More
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April 22, 2009 at 11:36 pm
[...] educational and domestic structure of the country as in Homework (1989) or the women’s issue in Ten [...]
January 24, 2010 at 9:24 pm
[...] for introspection. Be the mirror pointed towards the society at large, as in Homework (1989) and Ten (2002), or towards cinema, like in Close-Up (1990) and Five (2003), or towards the director [...]
March 27, 2010 at 9:03 am
[...] the experience of the flower girls themselves (the exact feeling that is induced when one watches Ten (2002)). It is hard not to think of the film as a political allegory given the fact that the whole [...]