Mashgh-e Shab (1989) (aka Homework)
Abbas Kiarostami
Persian
“Punishment means getting beaten up.”
Homework is an epic film. Not in its spectacle, but in its scope and implications. It is too profound, too complex and too vast for words. Both its form and content are uniquely and completely cinematic to the point of redefining its boundaries. This is a film that shows why the perspective of a director is more important than his ambitions. Simply put, Homework is the crown jewel of Kiarostami’s staggering career and one of modern cinema’s greatest achievements.
April 22, 2009 at 11:36 pm
[...] period as in The Traveller (1974), the educational and domestic structure of the country as in Homework (1989) or the women’s issue in Ten [...]
September 13, 2009 at 5:38 pm
[...] Shahid Saless’ Still Life (1974) is, barring Kiarostami’s Homework (1989), the greatest Iranian film that I’ve seen. To see that even during the pre-revolution era, [...]
November 22, 2009 at 3:53 pm
[...] hold it. Mysterious Object at Noon is, perhaps, closest in style and intent to Abbas Kiarostami’s Homework (1989), in which the director brings down a whole nation sitting in a stuffy room with a bunch of [...]
January 24, 2010 at 9:24 pm
[...] as a kind of mirror 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 [...]