The experience - the carnival - Ten

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A journey through Tehran streets…it’s almost a journey of a woman with the rest of the world. The world…there, her son and sister, an ordinary lady and a prostitute and of course the sepia hot dry Tehran it is. Where…nobody will understand what a woman may want…a husband and a son or a wing to round about the world.

Abbas kiarostami’s Ten (2002) as usual deals with the middle-east. But if it is not the same place the story could have gone with the same smoothness. It is useless to narrate the story to you, because it can be any story. It is a running conversation with some of the passengers who travel with this lady in this car. No other movement…no other placement. It is the car and a lady. The same thing repeats. The countdown starts from ten to one…or it can cross zero and you can start counting negatively. It does not matter. You will get same situations, same dialogues… actually language has a limitation of repeating itself, and the most wonderful thing is thus it is called natural language.

Only, we, the viewers can feel the restless journey of a chauvinist world. It is actually round about. It does not hold any end. Just go out with a handy camera and shoot out some of the scenes or better some of the dialogues of some people. Dialogue of anger, dialogue of rage, dialogue of a war (we fight almost all the time, na?)dialogue of depression…it will merely make any difference.

 Let’s talk about the technical details. “ The fixed camera shots, far from limiting the film, open it up on an emotional and psychological level. There are moments of humour, anger, and poignancy in ‘Ten.’ But the film also achieves something else - it shows what can be done with a film camera in a confined space, with a small cast and a low budget.”(http://www.laurahird.com/filmreviews/ten.html).

And that’s all. In a festival where you have a journey with the whole world, where you will feel like a carnival going on in front of the screen, is the perfect place to experience ‘Ten’. 

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