Ten (2002) 9/9

Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami uses the casual setting of one woman's automobile as the setting for a subtle but potent look at gender issues in the Middle East. Mania Akbari plays a nameless woman who, over the course of several days, gives a number of friends, family members, and acquaintances a ride in her car across town, among them her young son who is still upset over his parent's recent divorce; her sister; a close friend who has just been abandoned by her boyfriend; an older woman on her way to a worship service; another friend soon to be married; and a veteran streetwalker. As the woman and her passengers ride through Tehran, their conversations cast a light on her views of herself, as well as the ways other women view themselves and the larger world around them. Director Kiarostami shot Ten using two small digital video cameras, one of which was mounted on the car's dashboard, the other in a fixed position in the back seat, using this purposefully stark approach to keep the focus on the characters and their ideas.

Director/Screenwriter/Editor/Cinematographer: Abbas Kiarostami
Producers: Marin Karmitz, Abbas Kiarostami
Composer: Howard Blake

Cast: Mania Akbari, Amin Maher, Roya Arabshahi, Katayoun Taleidzadeh, Mandana Sharbaf, Amene Moradi

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301978/

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[cjohansen7]

Thanks for uploading this powerful film. This is the first film from Iran that I've seen.

[bhanumoti]

Nice to watch... natural acting! thanx 4 upload...

[ThePakibro786]

i want irani movies in my cinemas

[EdgeStormcrow]

@bookshop Sort of.. The actors are improvising, theres no script. The theme you speak about is only tangentially dealt with in the film. Most likely the theme appeared by virtue of the fact that Kiarostami chose a divorcee as his main 'actor'. The film was initially meant to be about a psychiatrist.

[bookshop]

@EdgeStormcrow you've missed the point entirely if you can't see that the son's views on his mother's divorce reflect society's as a whole. The moment she sought a divorce society labeled her a bad mother. Talking over his mother, interrupting her, contradicting her, are universal signs of the controlling, dominant male behavior she escaped from in her own marriage. The film's point is that as long as that behavior is the norm in a patriarchal society, a woman can only escape so far.

[bookshop]

@EdgeStormcrow you've missed the point entirely if you can't see that the son's views on his mother's divorce reflect society's as a whole. The moment she sought a divorce, she became a bad mother. His pattern of talking over his mother, interrupting her, contradicting her, are universal signs of the controlling, dominant male behavior she escaped from in her own marriage. The film's point is that as long as that behavior is the norm in a patriarchal society, a woman can only escape so far.

[EdgeStormcrow]

Thank you for uploading.

[EdgeStormcrow]

i found the film negative, repetative and inane. She complains about the role of women in society while bringing her son up to become that which she despises in men.

[nikkixd1234]

Thanks for uploading this. I have loved it... Very eye opening...

[TashaMac89]

awesome movie, had 2 finish it. well done

[m4r10c4]

i saw this film yesterday on a brazillian channel ,i simple loved it ,and before ,i thought that's real life ,'cause these actor are so much good ,congratulations Iran for make this film !

[darvishzade]

Unfortunately, It's so true ... I'd like to thanks Mr. Kia Rostami for making the movie, and all the actresses played in the movie, I understand that most of the women in Iran and in these kind of situations don't like others figure out about their problems.

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