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.
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05/09/03
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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
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.
05/09/03
Ten may strain your patience but that's the high-stakes gamble of this provocative project.
05/09/03
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05/01/03
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.
04/25/03
One of the year’s finest movies.
04/24/03
It 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
Stark, experimental and surprisingly affecting.
04/11/03
...a bracing glimpse of another culture.
04/11/03
Ten 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
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 film made by a master, with a simplicity that is really revolutionary.
04/10/03
Top CriticThoughtful insight and human concern are evident...but...there is no dramatic momentum whatever.
03/30/03
Kiarostami is nothing if not patient, almost to a fault here. He allows life to happen as the film rolls, and one can't help but wonder if, to cover a lot of emotional ground, you must also cover a lot of asphalt.
03/28/03
... a marvelous tension between the formal design and the improvisational style.
03/27/03
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
Makes 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
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