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Tag / Abbas Kiarostami

September 12, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Shirin (2008)

  • Kiarostami, Abbas
  • 2008, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
  • 4 Comments

Kiarostami shoots the close-ups of more than a hundred actresses as they watch a theatrical presentation unfold in this conceptually bold but ultimately uninvolving treatise on the nature of spectatorship.

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Rating: 3 out of 5.

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July 21, 2021July 26, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Ten (2002)

  • Kiarostami, Abbas
  • 2002, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
  • 4 Comments

It runs a little out of steam by the end, but Kiarostami’s breakthrough experiment with the digital video camera is a revelation as the private, unfiltered conversations in a car become wrestling bouts against patriarchy, served with ten ‘dings’ of the bell. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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July 12, 2021November 21, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Wind Will Carry Us, The (1999)

  • Kiarostami, Abbas
  • 1999, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
  • 4 Comments

Kiarostami’s observant eye for landscapes and people reaches its apotheosis here in this graceful, if sometimes elusive, meditation on life and mortality.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 18, 2021October 30, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Through the Olive Trees (1994)

  • Criterion Collection, Kiarostami, Abbas
  • 1994, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
  • 1 Comment

Kiarostami closes his wondrous ‘Koker’ trilogy with an even more multi-layered, meta-cinematic experiment in the guise of a love story.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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December 18, 2020August 4, 2021 by Eternality Tan

And Life Goes On (1992)

  • Criterion Collection, Kiarostami, Abbas
  • 1992, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
  • 2 Comments

Extraordinary docu-fictive filmmaking by Kiarostami as the second part of his ‘Koker’ trilogy brings us to the aftermath of the devastating 1990 Manjil-Rudbar earthquake via a skillfully deceptive meta-cinematic device. 

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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March 3, 2020March 18, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Where Is the Friend’s House? (1987)

  • Criterion Collection, Kiarostami, Abbas
  • 1987, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
  • 2 Comments

We follow a young schoolboy’s a-day-in-the-life journey in Kiarostami’s simple yet resonating breakthrough film. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 24, 2020September 28, 2022 by Eternality Tan

24 Frames (2017)

  • Criterion Collection, Kiarostami, Abbas
  • 2017, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
  • 1 Comment

Kiarostami leaves us with a work of indelible beauty, continuing his fascination with the phenomenology of cinema and its relation to the ephemeral.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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February 24, 2020July 21, 2021 by Eternality Tan

Like Someone in Love (2012)

  • Criterion Collection, Kiarostami, Abbas
  • 2012, Abbas Kiarostami, France, Japan
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Shot in Japan with a Japanese cast, Iranian master Kiarostami gives us a rueful but tender film about the nature of love, desire and liking.

⭐⭐⭐⭐

Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 24, 2020October 2, 2022 by Eternality Tan

Certified Copy (2010)

  • Criterion Collection, Kiarostami, Abbas
  • 2010, Abbas Kiarostami, France, Iran
  • 3 Comments

Kiarostami’s first non-Iranian film is engaging, but the male lead is unable to hold his own against Juliette Binoche.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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February 17, 2020 by Eternality Tan

Taste of Cherry (1997)

  • Criterion Collection, Kiarostami, Abbas
  • 1997, Abbas Kiarostami, Iran
  • 5 Comments

Plainfully simple yet thematically complex, this slow and bleak feature remains to be one of Kiarostami’s most profoundly engaging works.

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5.

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