| [filmlover-l] movie this week: TEN |
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
12:08:39 AM |
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tbco@mtu.edu |
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filmlover-l@mtu.edu |
Hello everyone,
Happy new year!
For this week, we are showing an Iranian movie "Ten" by Abbas
Kiarostami. (more details below).
Please feel free to pass the message around and invite your friends.
The more the merrier. Hope you can join us.
Regards,
Tom Co
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Title: Ten
Date and Time: January 4, Wednesday 6:30-9:00pm
Place: 308 Cooper Ave, Hancock
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Partial List of Actors:
Mania Akbari
Amin Maher
Kamran Adl
Roya Arabshahi
Amene Moradi
Mandana Sharbaf
US Rating: unrated (I think it is PG-13)
Language: Farsi (with English subtitles)
Length: 91 mins
Media: DVD, color
Summary: ( by Stephen Kirkham, via www.imdbd.com)
"Ten...focuses on ten conversations between a female driver
in Tehran and the passengers in her car. Her exchanges with
her young son, a jilted bride, a prostitute, a women on her
way to prayer and others, shed light on the lives and
emotions
of these women whose voices are seldom heard."
My Comments:
Much like "taxicab confessions", but I do find this film
way more,
much more interesting because of the interesting
conversations
coupled with my ignorance of Iranian culture. Of
course, I never
know if it is real or staged (probably mixed)...I hope
someone
could clarify. There is a strong focus on the women's
perspective.
I think the director Abbas Kiarostami is an acquired taste.
He seems to be interested in exploring film as a
voyeuristic media
( I just wish he'd not inserted the numbers between the
episodes.)
