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