Scene from "Five Dedicated to Ozu"

In this simplistic and contemplative piece also known as "Five Long Takes Dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu", Director Kiarostami assembles five stationary shots taken at the Caspian Sea. This film is representative of Kiarostami's recent and arguably less successful "experimental" period that has seen the director work with inexpensive digital video cameras. The look and feel of the extended takes are inspired by the work of master Japanese director Yasujiro Ozu, who heavily influenced Abbas Kiarostami.

http://www.firouzanfilms.com/TheFirouzanFifty/Movies/FiveDedicatedToOzu/index...

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Film & Animation

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• Abbas
• Kiarostami

[kostgian]

@404sandmonkey ....in my point of view the crucial point in the ozu work,is the montage-racord type einsenstein but with successives CUTS,and the crucial point [i.e a face/a leg/a hand etc ]of one finishing scene is the beginning of the new scene.......from einsenstein influence is also the triangle-faces-especially beautifuls women plan in ozu work .....

[404sandmonkey]

To call this beautiful you must be deluded. Also, what has this to do with Ozu; where is the social commentary, the humour? How can leaving scene composition to luck compare to the strictly composited (one might even say 'Japanese') cinematography of Ozu? Experimental, yes, creative in any true sense, no. Ozu used fixed camera positions and invented a tatami-level eye view, Kiarostami has used static cameras (without being overly inventive). There the similarity ends.

[jovossuck123]

not everyone likes the flavour of tofu

[front131]

Utterly unqualified as I am to criticise any director's work, but a lover of Ozu, for me, the scene doesn't work.

[lessegers]

Beautiful!