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Ten (2003)
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Reviews Counted:51
Fresh:44
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.3/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Mar 5, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: In TEN, celebrated Iranian writer-director Abbas Kiarostami (Taste of Cherry, Through the Olive Trees) once again casts his masterful cinematic gaze upon the modern sociopolitical landscape of his... [More]
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
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Reviews for Ten
... a marvelous tension between the formal design and the improvisational style.
03/27/03
Cumulatively, the episodic conversations paint a vivid picture of contemporary Iranian life and, especially, of the place of women in the post-revolutionary era.
08/20/02
A marvel not only as a pioneering use of digital video but also as an affecting and multilayered parable about one woman's journey toward inner peace.
09/29/02
A point made to distraction.
06/25/03
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
06/19/03
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.
06/14/03
For a wholly original look at Iranian society, this is a must-see.
12/08/02
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.
05/09/03
Top CriticA 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.
04/25/03
Top CriticWhatever 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.
05/16/03
No ordinary moviegoer, whether Iranian or American, can be expected to relate to [Kiarostami's] films. They exist for film festivals, film critics and film classes.
04/11/03
Top CriticA fine film.
08/08/03
Inexpensively shot on digital video, it's an invaluable work of art.
03/06/03
Lacks the spiritual foundation, the individual search for beauty in the face of the world's indifference, that is the hallmark of Kiarostami's oeuvre.
03/19/03
A glimpse into a society that has grown more open, more free, and also more casually selfish in its interpersonal aggression.
03/06/03
Top CriticThe key achievement of this minimalist statement is that Kiarostami conveys these truths with nothing more than a simple two-camera setup and a series of naked emotions.
09/25/02
If Ten feels neither like a reinvention of cinema nor a truly fundamentalist attempt to get back to basics, it manages to work best as a distinctive entry in Kiarostami's diverse oeuvre.
10/08/02
Conceptually rigorous, splendidly economical, and radically Bazinian.
03/04/03
Top CriticThese 10 sequences are moments frozen in time, which reveal a surprising amount about the emotional lives of the movie's characters.
06/05/02
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