The Experience

Tadjrobeh

Iran

1973

60 Min

Black and White

Farsi

Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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SCR Abbas Kiarostami, Amir Naderi

CAST Hassan Yar-Mohamadi, Parviz Naderi, Andre Guvalovich, Mostafa Tari, Firuzeh Habibi, Kamal Ramzani, Behruz Adriun, Morteza Said, Sirus Kakhaki

An adolescent boy, old for his years like so many of Kiarostami’s (or Iran’s) working children, juggles a job as a photographer’s assistant, a first crush, and the urge to sample adulthood’s temptations (cigarettes and movies). This beautiful exercise in storytelling virtually without words is shot with the crispness and stark contrasts of Kiarostami’s still photography. But this vista teems with humanity—not only that of the boy, who is essentially without family (he sleeps at the photography lab), but of the adults he encounters (and who invariably let him down) on the urban pathways he courses. In his young actor, Kiarostami found a face and soul made for the screen. —Judy Bloch

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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All Is Grace

27Aug10

The Experience is a really beautiful realist film, shot in high contrast B/W, depicting the issues of life of the now teenager child of Bread and Alley and Breaktime.

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