Dah (2002)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 92 minuten
Alternative titles: Ten / 10
Country:
France / Iran
Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami
Stars: Mania Akbari
IMDb score:
7,4 (9.062)
Releasedate: 20 May 2002
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Dah plot
Ten scenes portray a modern Iranian woman who transports people in her car and who finds herself in an environment in which the woman is seen as inferior.
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Spetie
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Abbas Kiarostami's films are often very simple in design, but usually succeed in conveying a message to the viewer in a strong way. Ten is no different.
Ten is about an Iranian taxi driver who, during her work, is constantly confronted with the fact that women are disadvantaged in her country. We see taxi rides in which the woman has conversations with her fellow passengers. In the opening ride, the woman has a conversation with her son. Kiarostami immediately sets the tone for the rest of the film. In the beginning I got the idea that the son doesn't take his mother seriously at all and you can hear it right away talking from a way that shows that, despite his young age, he looks down on women.
After this, the son comes back a few more times and we also see another female passenger several times. I have to say that I found the conversations very fascinating, although the beginning is clearly the strongest. The disadvantaged position of women comes to the fore well and I found myself even feeling a little sorry for the leading lady every now and then. Furthermore, I thought it was a strong and very effective way in which Kiarostami knows how to convey his message.
Great film, with which Kiarostami once again proves that it doesn't take much to deliver something good.
4.0*
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mister blonde
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Fascinating concept, but I only found that about the film as a whole at times. The encounters in the car were fascinating for half and less fascinating for the other half. The part with the prostitute and the shaved woman were stunning. For example, the 4 times the male came back were stretched too long for a point that was actually clear quite quickly. It takes up almost half of the movie. But that Kiarostami is a very interesting and innovative filmmaker, who has something to say, is more than clear after three films. On to more. 3.5 stars. Has yet to see his first real topper, but I think it will be fine.
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Fisico
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A kind of documentary combi film style that you can also expect from Panahi. Very simple design and a concept that has already been used in various television reality formats, where a taxi driver has a chat with his passengers. With the difference, of course, that the lady in question is not a taxi driver at all.
Kiarostami's set-up is also completely different. Here he tries to map out the position of women in Iran and the very patriarchal setting of society. In everything you notice that women are subordinate. Based on a Western-minded woman, he creates all kinds of conversations in which the position of women is suppressed.
The scenes with the son are the most striking. Especially since they are quite brutal and in our eyes quite shocking and disrespectful. The father is a kind of holy man and has a high regard, that is clear. Divorce is apparently possible in Iran, but as a woman you are not better off afterwards…
But other conversations were also fascinating, especially when the floor was left to the prostitute. Furthermore, well filmed with emphasis on the close camera images of the individuals. It is also interesting not to keep changing camera angles during the dialogue. This creates an amplifying effect of what you hear, but do not see.
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