Through the Olive Trees
Zire darakhatan zeyton
Iran, France
1994
103 Min
Color
1.66:1
Persian
Synopsis
The movie focuses on one of the events in Zendegi Edame Darad (1992), and explores the relationship between the movie director, and the actors. The local actors play a couple who got married right after the earthquake. In reality, the actor is trying to persuade the actress that they should get married. –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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Sudipto Basu
30Jul11
On one level, the blurring of lines between the making of this film, the previous film, and the making of the previous film as staged in this film (?) produces a strange effect as you try to figure it out. On another level, it's a touching document of how lives that have suffered tremendous losses (in this case, due to an earthquake) try to find their way back to normalcy, grow relationships and live.
kelvanE
4Jul11
Brilliant film. Contains it all: meandering philosophy, fleeting love, and that urge, near madness, to connect with another person. In the absence of voice, we invent scenarios ourselves. Perhaps it's this quintessential shot of Hossein running up the hill after her that is most powerful and lasting from the film.
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comeandsee
27Jan11
definitive masterpiece. this film blurs the boundaries between the reality and the fakery of cinema. the film had many layers, and is a film within a film within a film at points. the acting is perfect in its natural beauty. the landscapes become even more beautiful in this film, and that last shot is genius. easily the best part of this trilogy and it shows why kiarostami is the true auteur of world cinema.
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Kiarostami, the Master of mixing fiction and reality
By All Is Grace on April 2, 2010
The best of Koker trilogy in my opinion. Have you heard a director making a film (Kiarostami), about a director making another film (Keshavarz) portraying another director (Kheradmand)?! The border… read review
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By © <',))( Astro-Tofupraxographer on April 11, 2009
This is my favorite film about making a film. Not a single false moment, and towards the end I felt more for the actors having to repeat their scenes over and over rather than the director. What a… read review
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