Review of Ten (2002) by Peter W — 19 Feb 2008
Ten scenes and almost no cuts in those sets! Abbas Kiarostami takes a bold leap into the life of a middle class Tehran woman. Within the first ten minutes you can already see the conflict of the film present itself.
When can a woman be a woman and make decisions as a woman apart from her husband or male counterparts. Her son visciously chastizes his mother for leaving her husband and is completely inconsiderate of her happiness.
This is a great story and the idea of women being trapped or boxed in is further reinforced by the minimal mise-en-scene of the car. The car is as much a metaphor for mobility as it is a containing force that shields as much as it prevents real access to the world--what ever the real world means anyways?
This review of Ten (2002) was written by Peter W on 19 Feb 2008.
Ten has generally received very positive reviews.
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