Through the Olive Trees is a great example of how neo-realistic techniques can show realism in film making. One personal criticism would be the music, but that is purely personal, and takes nothing away from the film. A masterpeice.
伊朗大导演阿巴斯的深情之作，仍然采取他一贯的纪实电影风格，描述一段小人物的爱情插曲。男主角是一位年轻的砖匠哈山，他在阿巴斯率领外景队前来该村拍摄影片《生生长流》时，获得在影片中演出的机会。在片中饰演他新婚妻子的塔荷莉，正是哈山暗恋已久而求婚失败的女孩。于是哈山藉拍...
I had the pleasure of watching this movie last year. I have recommended it to countless others since. There is something about this movie that stays with you and is absolutely unforgettable. I can't quite put my finger on it. The pace is slow and purposeful. The little girl and her brother are adorable. The minor characters are fantastic, including the tailor and the difficult customer. I found myself laughing out loud several times during the movie, The themes are universal. It was very easy to...
It is a work of art, one of those movies that can not be censored because of the content, thus a good point for an Iranian director. Something I like about Kiarostami's work is that the director does not try to cheat you. Even you can sense the presence of camera in some scenes and the reward is the beautiful picture, like walking in a picture gallery hand in hand with your beloved friend. And suddenly a nice picture catches your attention and you feel happy of the time you spend. If you feel lo...
found this movie strangely compelling for such a simple plot. It reminded me of the Bhutanese film "The Cup", as well as the Iranian film "A Time for Drunken Horses". All of these films contain singular seemingly straight forward quests within a framework of largely tedious everyday life. I believe that my interest was held because they are studies on different cultures and ways of living. They allowed me to feel grateful to reside in North America, and to have myriad options in life. There is l...
It is a very interesting and compelling film that on the surface seems to be one of the most boring ever made. "Wind Will Carry Us" tells the story of Behzad, the documentary director, who travels with his crew from Tehran to the tiny remote village of Siah Dareh where they hope to document an ancient funeral ritual. While there, all they can do is wait for an old lady to die and to hope that it would happen sooner than later. The lady does not seem to hurry to meet her Creator. Nothing much hap...
thoroughly enjoyed this film. I would recommend it to anyone curious about Iranian culture. It is one of those films which you watch and afterwards begin to think about the film as a whole in so many different contexts. The story is about men. The funny thing is that there is no men in the film except for the father who we never meet.
一部数码嵌摄蜕录机，翔十首段的士内伤的糖对谈，道蔓尽物千腰百年来女若性顺面对骤的困境。磐基则阿鲁斯他达岩米这乾部去损得占更尽的仿纪录片作品，在康浓城首咬映防时叙被...
The newspaper reviewers and the commentators above missed the point, I think. Over and over again, the film develops the contrast between things being motionless and stuck and being energetically in motion. We have the photographer (and photographs render things motionless) in his stuck car. We have the childless wife. This forlorn village. The train that moves and the abandoned and broken train. The teacher is constantly in motion, pushing the photographer on when he wants to wait for a cloud a...
Written by the most prominent figure in Iranian social realist cinema, Talaye Sorkh is very much suggestive of some social realities in contemporary Iran. Following an underclass pizza-delivery man for a day or two of his life, Panahi's camera pictures a story that speaks only not for Hussein, but also for many of his real-life fellow citizens in Tehran. Although the film appears to be highly critical of the current social gap between the rich and the poor, Talaye Sorkh is more about alienation ...
Can this "film" be considered as a film? Imagine the situation: somebody puts a handy cam over a tripod and in front of a sea promenade and film people walking or jogging along it. Then, he places the camera in a beach, buys some ducks in a pet shop, open their cages and let them run in front of the camera. Later, he just films the water surface and the sound of birds and insects in an absolute darkness. Is it an experiment or just an insult to the audience intelligence? What would it happen if ...
This isn't so much a documentary as it is an 80 minute class with Iranian auteur Abbas Kiarstomi. Using his movie "Ten" as an example, he breaks down his theory of filmaking in 10 chapters, ranging from his preference of camera, to his take on character and directing.
Don't expect a doc with include scenery and talking heads. There is only one talking head, Kiarstomi's, as it drives cross countryside alone. But that's the beauty of this. It was just him and a camera and some free time.
He's ta...
Tickets/ / Abbas Kiarostami
When I first started watching this movie I was looking for some kind of subtle metaphors but it soon dawned on me that this movie was indeed about people on a train. The interactions between people are like those you can see any day on the street and when in occasion there is a slightly more interesting situation the dialogue becomes stilted and boring. Its not that I don't get how this film is trying to portray the way people interact, it's just that in this film they are very boring. If you wa...
A bare bones synopsis of this film might lead you to expect that it is lethally boring. Four middle aged buddies are returning to Tehran from a trip to the mountains, trying to get back in time to watch an important soccer match on TV. Their homeward journey grinds to a halt when they round a curve in the highway and are confronted by a natural monolith, a 10 foot high, narrow rock formation, projecting straight up out of the ground, overlooking the canyon below. They spend the rest of the movie...
阿巴斯․基亞羅斯塔米 (Abbas Kiarostami) 的《照原來的拷貝》(Copie conforme) 由茱莉葉․畢諾許 (Juliette Binoche) 跟弗杭蘇瓦․柯魯傑 (François Cluzel) 主演。看基亞羅斯塔米近年來的狀況，這部最新的劇情長片看似不妙
一个少女去泸沽湖旅游，这里是一个保留母系氏族风俗的地方，荡漾的湖水，激情的摩梭人，释放各种压力的游客，让这里充满了远离都市的原始欲望。一个早上，少女坐了一条船，去到了一个无人问津的岛上,无意中来到一个小寺庙，看到了一个少年僧人在赤身修炼，春心欲动，之后三次到岛上偷窥少年僧人。
一个对世俗充满好奇的少年喇嘛从松赞林寺出行，师父送给他一个扫帚，罚他去一个小寺庙修行，一复一日在湖心岛的寺庙打扫，干活，修炼。一日发现一个少女来到一个岛上，偷窥着自己，喇嘛修炼时候也逐渐查觉，在佛理定力下，心里与少女交织痴...
主人公王奇，22岁，高中毕业后去南方打工。他的妈妈因为有病，精神不 太 正 常，所以他从小就和爷爷奶奶一起生活，一直到现在。家里人 都叫 他的 小名——小举。
今 年 冬 天 回 家 他 有 一 件 重 要 的 事 情 要 做，那 就 是 结 婚......
Wangqi, a 22 year old man, a migrant labor in the south after graduation from high school .
His mother has a mental illness. So he lived with his grandparents from childhood till now. All his familymembers call his pet name-----Xiaoju.
There’s a very important thing for hi...
