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RECESS

Zang-e Tafrih

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Iran, 1972
Drama, Short

Synopsis

A quietly daring and disconcerting film, ostensibly small but hinting at several possible (and possibly grave) outer stories.

Synopsis

A quietly daring and disconcerting film, ostensibly small but hinting at several possible (and possibly grave) outer stories.

Our take

Abbas Kiarostami’s blend of documentary method with a lyrical style is already fully fledged in his second film about a boy and a ball. Testing the limits of the possible might result in naughtiness in school, but for the Iranian poet, it is the start of an alternative education out in the world.