Five

Five Dedicated to Ozu

Iran, France, Japan

2003

75 Min

Color

1.85:1

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Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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PROD Marin Karmitz, Ali Reza Shoja-Nuri, Makoto Ueda

SOUND Abbas Kiarostami

Cannes (Out of Competition), Toronto, Vancouver, BAFICI

Synopsis

Five sequences : 1) A piece of driftwood on the seashore, carried about by the waves 2) People walking on the seashore. The oldest ones stop by, look at the sea, then go away 3) Blurry shapes on a winter beach. A herd of dogs. A love story 4) A group of loud ducks cross the image, in one direction then the other 5) A pond, at night. Frogs improvising a concert. A storm, then the sunrise. —IMDb

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940. He graduated from university with a degree in fine arts before starting work as a graphic designer. He then joined the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, where he started a film section, and this started his career as a filmmaker at the age of 30. Since then he has made many movies and has become one of the most important figures in contemporary Iranian film. He is also a major figure in the arts world, and has had numerous gallery exhibitions of his photography, short films and poetry. He is an iconic figure for what he has done, and he has achieved it all by believing in the arts and the creativity of his mind. —World Cinema Foundation

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smelo

23Jul11

"Dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu"

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yoel meranda

4Nov10

structural but not exactly in the sense of the american avant-garde, real audiovisual treat

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Dermo

25Apr10

What did I miss here? I found nothing stimulating in this, other than the positioning of the camera is done by someone with an eye for captured images, but so what? The film gave me nothing. Does that make me unworthy? Really like Ten and Shirin, Kiarostami's other 'experiments'... this didn't work in my opinion. It seems like self reduction to nothing.