Saturday, February 18, 2006

Ten (Iran)

Abbas Kiarostami, 2002, 92min, UK:12

Directed by renowned Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, the film allows the viewer to listen in on conversations with women whose voices are seldom heard.

While "Ten" is rooted in its particular Persian culture, the questions raised by the voices of the women have a global resonance. This is not Kiarostami’s best film, but it is quite recent. The camera work and format of the story – two static camera’s that watch the actors who spend all their time driving around in a car – have a creative simplicity that is as much a part of the film as the conversations that underpin it.

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