Month: July 2021

Abbas Kiarostami’s Five Dedicated to Ozu is a unique cinematic experience. Films do not necessarily always portray stories. Sometimes, non-narrative shots convey more meaning than merely describing a story. Those become integral parts of a film and most importantly depict life on screen. Five Dedicated to Ozu consists of five long shots of nature without …

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Abbas Kiarostami’s Shirin is a perfect example of experimental filmmaking. The film is based on the epic poem Khosrow and Shirin by Nizami Ganjavi. However, Kiarostami is not interested in merely presenting the poem in the film. He has always experimented with different filmmaking styles and enriched films as one of the most important mediums …

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Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten portrays the indescribable plight and struggle of Iranian women in modern Iran. Kiarostami’s films always deal with serious issues like life, death, afterlife, spirituality, suicide, etc., and represent the lives and culture of ordinary Iranians. His films are replete with the enormous natural beauty of Rural Iran. However, in this film, his …

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Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us is a poetic film. A journalist named Behzad (Behzad Dourani) visits a Kurdish Iranian village to shoot the funeral rituals of a hundred-year-old woman. After spending a couple of weeks there, he finally abandons the mission and is about to leave the village when the old woman dies. As …

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