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DVD ~ Mania Akbari
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  • Actors: Mania Akbari, Amin Maher, Kamran Adl, Roya Arabshahi, Amene Moradi
  • Directors: Abbas Kiarostami
  • Writers: Abbas Kiarostami
  • Producers: Abbas Kiarostami, Caley Thomas, Marin Karmitz
  • Format: PAL
  • Language Persian
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: Optimum Home Entertainment
  • DVD Release Date: 28 Jul 2003
  • Run Time: 92 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000096KKJ
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 41,604 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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Special Features

  • Cast and crew biographies
  • Abbas Kiarostami filmography
  • Trailer reel

DVD Technical Information:

  • Colour/PAL
  • Running time: 92 minutes
  • Region Code: 2


Synopsis

Filmed entirely inside a car, a woman drives through the streets of Tehran, picking up and dropping off passengers--her son, a friend, her sister, a prostitute--as she runs errands and goes about her busy days. The title TEN represents the number of distinct conversations that the woman has with each of her passengers, reflecting on life and the status of women in modern-day Iran. Directed by Abbas Kiarostami (TASTE OF CHERRY, THE WIND WILL CARRY US).
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39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Understated masterpiece, 4 Aug 2003
By Michael Lavocah (Norwich, England) - See all my reviews
Kiarostami proves that you don't need a big budget to shoot a great film. This film is assembled entirely from the footage from two fixed cameras in the protaganist's car, one pointing at the driver's seat, and the other in the passenger seat. Ten times she picks up a passenger (sometimes a person we have already met) and drives them through the streets of Tehran. Through their conversations, a deeply human picture emerges of the complexity of her life and that of her passengers.

Contrary to the description given, I'd like to say that the woman is attractive but not beautiful. This accolade goes to her final passenger. The final scene, in which almost nothing happens, will rip your heart out.

If you are a human being this film is one that will touch your heart with a deeper appreciation of what it means to be human. As such, it leaves you better than when you found it. Watch it with a good friend.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Superb example that less can be more, 5 Feb 2006
By pointone (Bournemouth UK) - See all my reviews
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The action occurs entirely in the front seat of a car driving around Teheran, with just two cameras, one for each character. Due to the exceptional quality of the acting and screen play this minimalist approach is perfect.

The main relationship is between the female driver (Mania Akbari) usually quoted as a driver but in one of the conversation with her son Amin it is clear she is a photographer.

Amin (Amin Maher) the pre teenage son is wonderfully acted, especially as the dialogue is very adult for most of the time but allows for outbursts appropriate to his age. I am not clear if the dialogue is intended to be normal for a child of his age, and if so Iranian children are incredibly intelligent. Amin appears in four scenes, first strongly rebelling against his mother for divorcing his father, then by the end of the film is more conciliatory but even so in the last scene where his mother picks him up for a visit her tells her to take him to grandma.

The other six scenes, two with her sister, and four with women she gives lifts to, a prostitute, an old woman and a fellow visitor to a mausoleum where they pray. These scenes explore the role of women in Iranian society, and the dominate position of men.

The writer/director Abbas Kiarostami seems to specialise in these examinations of various human conditions and I will be renting more.

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant and wholly different angle on cinema, 29 Jan 2006
By Michael Axworthy (UK) - See all my reviews
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The first reviewer is absolutely right.

This film slowly (some may think, initially, too slowly) draws you in. A woman drives around a city, squabbles with her young son, talks to other passengers. We don't know where she is going, nor where the film is going.

And then, bang. Near the end, one of the most simple, moving, unforgettable bits of pure cinema you will ever see.

It's not Hollywood, but it is quite brilliant.

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5.0 out of 5 stars a pleasant exercise in observation
What I liked about this film was, not so much the conversations, which were interesting in their own way. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Malig Mill

4.0 out of 5 stars Tales from Tehran
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2.0 out of 5 stars Dull
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