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Ten - Abbas Kiarostami

By Srikanth Srinivasan | August 17th, 2008 | Category: Cinema, Iranian Cinema | 2 comments

Abbas Kiarostami’s claustrophobic documentation of a day in the life of a woman in Iran. who is on the verge of a divorce. and the people she meets during her long ride in the city. Kiarostami’s quarter century long innovation continues as Ten scores. There are not more than a handful of directors who have the special ability to look beyond the boundaries and hop over the conventions of the medium. Abbas Kiarostami, with his radically fresh perspective and consistent streak of “different” films…


Pedar (The father) - Majid Majidi

By Srikanth Srinivasan | June 23rd, 2008 | Category: Cinema, Iranian Cinema | No Comments »

For a large part of the world Majid Majidi’s filmography begins with the disarmingly charming Children of Heaven (1997). But the Iranian auteur had already struck gold a year before the first Oscar nomination from Iran. The themes, style and idiosyncrasies that were to mesmerize the world in the years following Children of Heaven clearly [...]