Ten (2002)
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 52
Fresh: 45 | Rotten: 7
Ten turns a conversational car ride into a gritty and compelling character study full of real emotion while providing an intriguing look into the lives of women in contemporary Iranian culture.
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 17 | Rotten: 2
Ten turns a conversational car ride into a gritty and compelling character study full of real emotion while providing an intriguing look into the lives of women in contemporary Iranian culture.
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Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami uses the casual setting of one woman's automobile as the setting for a subtle but potent look at gender issues in the Middle East. Mania Akbari plays a nameless woman who, over the course of several days, gives a number of friends, family members, and acquaintances a ride in her car across town, among them her young son who is still upset over his parent's recent divorce; her sister; a close friend who has just been abandoned by her boyfriend; an
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A major minimalist departure for Kiarostami.
Top CriticA very interesting film, despite structural limitations that keep it from approaching greatness.
A rare chance for viewers to eavesdrop on everyday talk in Tehran that, although fictionalized, must approximate what really happens in Iran's busy capital.
Ten may strain your patience but that's the high-stakes gamble of this provocative project.
A conceptual tour de force and a brainiac's road movie, Abbas Kiarostami's Ten goes from chilly abstraction to hot emotion in less than 60 seconds.
It shows us, in an extraordinarily simple way, the hopes and frustrations of one woman's life.
Often provokes humor and refreshing insights.
... [S]ticking with it provides further insight into Kiarostami's psychology and society ...
A fine film.
A point made to distraction.
Abbas Kiarostami has created, for all of its filmic simplicity - static camera, minimalist settings and obviously from the hip filmmaking (you can watch as the curious drive by the lady's car and rubberneck) - has created a nicely complex character study
Who would have thought a movie centered on a driver and her passengers that never leaves the car could be so compellingly watchable? Ten is not only a fascinating character study, but a portrait of an entire way of life.
A little more reach would have allowed Ten to turn it up to 11.
Whatever the film lacks in physical lyricism, it makes up for with a claustrophobic flair that leads you to conclude that Ten can be the loneliest number.
Works in its own mysterious ways.
For little more than the price of a tank of gas and a video camera, Kiarostami lets his viewers drive a mile in another's shoes. It's not often that a road trip is so educational.
When you stagger out of the theatre after watching the new Iranian movie Ten, you may find yourself wondering just what, exactly, was the point.
One of the year's finest movies.
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