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, .. Read more
| Starring | Abbas Kiarostami, Mania Akbari, Roya Arabshani, Katayoun Taleidzadeh |
|---|---|
| Director | Abbas Kiarostami |
| Genres | Drama |
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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).
| Starring | Abbas Kiarostami, Mania Akbari, Roya Arabshani, Katayoun Taleidzadeh |
|---|---|
| Director | Abbas Kiarostami |
| Studio | OPTIMUM HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 32 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama |
| Language | DVD: Farsi |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 28 Jul 2003 Production year: 2002 |
Taking a technical gamble by filming only the interior of a car from a camera fixed to the windscreen, Abbas Kiarostami provides a compelling insight into the current status of Iranian women in the light of recent liberalisation. As the divorcee ferrying her petulant eight-year-old son Amin Maher around town, Mania Akbari succeeds in moving between chic assurance and disconsolate fortitude as she encounters a variety of women — including a prostitute, a widow and a discarded bride — whose problems far outweigh her own. The issues raised are already momentous, but the simple immediacy of Kiarostami's approach makes them all the more poignant and potent. Courageous in every regard.
"...TEN is a work of inspired simplicity....[Ms. Akbari's] performance has about it an air of sly, confident defiance: it may be Mr. Kiarostami's camera, but she's the one behind the wheel..."
Another Iranian masterpiece from cult cinema director Abbas Kiarostrami. The film is a minimalist drama, the whole film is set in the front two seats of a car ... more