A major minimalist departure for Kiarostami.
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07/10/03
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Ten (2003)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:17
Rotten:1
Average Rating:7.7/10
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
1 - 18 (sorted by date)
Top CriticA very interesting film, despite structural limitations that keep it from approaching greatness.
05/09/03
Top CriticA 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 CriticTen may strain your patience but that's the high-stakes gamble of this provocative project.
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 CriticIt shows us, in an extraordinarily simple way, the hopes and frustrations of one woman's life.
04/18/03
Top CriticVery soon it's clear that even from a camera trained on the front seat of a car, an amazingly full and complex portrait of Iranian life can emerge.
04/18/03
Top CriticStark, experimental and surprisingly affecting.
04/11/03
Top CriticTen has been praised as a further distillation of Kiarostami's already minimalist cinema. That's true enough, even if his movies still have a tendency to make us carsick.
04/11/03
Top CriticNo 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 film made by a master, with a simplicity that is really revolutionary.
04/10/03
Top CriticMakes maximum use of a minimalist structure to deliver some cogent observations about the status of women in contemporary Iran.
03/13/03
Top CriticTen might not be the easiest film for Hollywood-conditioned viewers to get into or to enjoy, but it never seems like an arid experiment.
03/08/03
Top CriticA glimpse into a society that has grown more open, more free, and also more casually selfish in its interpersonal aggression.
03/06/03
Top CriticBreezy, entertaining and enlightening.
03/06/03
Top CriticConceptually rigorous, splendidly economical, and radically Bazinian.
03/04/03
Top CriticBy the end you feel that the lives of the characters, and the complicated society they inhabit, have been illuminated.
10/24/02
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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