Reviews of (mostly) less well known "indie" films

Tag Archives: Abbas Kiarostami

A saturnine looking bloke as you can see. With sad eyebrows. He’s dug himself a hole up on the hill next to a solitary tree. Now he’s driving around looking for someone who will do the dirty deed. What deed you ask? Its the question the blokes that climb in the car with him are [...]


Already watched this film a couple of times. Didn’t think much of it. I’ll have to see if i can see some merit in it. The title by itself, “Thro the olive trees” merits something good said about it. @ The olive trees are swaying in the winds. That’s about the only memorable image in [...]


He’s an appealing little lad. According to Kiarostami he was looking for a non-actor with the right kind of worried look – and this lad was picked out. He – Ahmed – is worried. Concerned to return the school exercise book he mistakenly took back to Reza, his friend. Otherwise Reza will be in trouble [...]



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