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Director: Abbas Kiarostami
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From Time Out London
Shot entirely from the front of a car and using (with one exception) just two camera angles, this low-budget digital sheds light on the predicaments of six women and a child – all inhabitants of modern Tehran – as they argue, joke, cajole and comfort each other during ten brief journeys. It also explores the knotty relationships between reality, fiction and truth, and between the actors, the audience and the film-maker. It’s a quietly audacious experiment in which its creator’s determination to eliminate visible traces of ‘direction’ from the equation makes for unusually forthright viewing.Author:
Time Out London Issue 1813: May 18-25 2005
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- Technoguy said...
- Posted on Dec 21 2007 00:20 It was an interesting angle on Iranian life. I was as much interested on glimpsing life on the streets through the car windows as I was the drama going on in the car.The driver was an attractive woman and seemed free of the normal constraints of Iranian society.She wore her chador, but also sunglasses which she took off to reveal her eyes. I felt there was a superficiality to some of the dialogue maybe to make it seem more real.The son had a monstrous egotism and bullied his mother a lot.This film could have taken place in any European city apart from the blazing sunshine being a giveaway.Was this mode of film-making meant to mirror the heavy moral-religious censorship that operates in Iran?If this is so censorship has become the mother of invention.
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