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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, .. Read more

Starring	Abbas Kiarostami, Mania Akbari, Roya Arabshani, Katayoun Taleidzadeh
Director	Abbas Kiarostami
Genres	Drama

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- "...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..."
- 11458
- - New York Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
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  UNFORGETTABLE
  
  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 ... read more »
  
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  - England
  - 10 Sep 2004 at 00:12
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- - 0
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  Four out of Ten
  
  That's how many of these ten utterly naturalistic and at the same time utterly contrived conversations we endured before reaching for the (very) fast-... read more »
  
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- - HSMC
  - 6 reviews
  - 26 Feb 2012 at 12:28
- - 1
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  Subtle and profound
  
  This film took my breath away. I have not been so impressed by a film since, well, the last Kiarostami film I saw, and the one before that. Technically so ... read more »
  
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- - Vidyaruci
  - 3 reviews
  - Birmingham
  - 15 Jun 2010 at 11:33
- - 1
  - 0
  Persian Intrigue
  
  An absorbing and thoroughly enjoyable examination of the life of a free thinking woman in contemporary Tehran. Her exchanges with the people she meets are ... read more »
  
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- - bothyboy
  - 7 reviews
  - Glasgow
  - 02 May 2009 at 15:57
- - 1
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  Unbelievably simple!!
  
  This film is so simple that to explain it would probably put the majority of people off! but it is also absolutely enthralling.
  
  Simply put, it is ... read more »
  
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- - Carsey
  - 88 reviews
  - Wisbech
  - 23 Apr 2009 at 21:12
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  Interesting Insight
  
  I would like to watch this film again as I did find it hard to really get into. I know this is simply because of the way its filmed but at the same time it'... read more »
  
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- - BeccyMalloi
  - 124 reviews
  - Kersey, Suffolk
  - 09 Mar 2009 at 18:52
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  oh dear
  
  Just very, very dull. I'm sure someone will tell me I'm missing the point, that I'm not cultured enough etc, but I just found it very boring. You ... read more »
  
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- - runningvix
  - 3 reviews
  - Teignmouth
  - 21 Feb 2009 at 20:50
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  interesting in places, but hard to follow
  
  Very interesting idea to film the entire thing on video in a car as a woman drives around talking and going through a series of every-day situations. But, I ... read more »
  
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- - a customer
  - London
  - 24 Oct 2008 at 09:15
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  Lost In Translation?
  
  The concept of making an entire film shot from inside a car seemed groundbreaking in it's originality, though somewhere along the way the film falls far ... read more »
  
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- - Psychobob
  - 3 reviews
  - Leicester
  - 29 Jun 2008 at 13:26
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  Customer Review
  
  Whilst I'm not disputing the value of this film in giving an insight into the plight of women in a patriarchal society, and whilst I concede that the acting... read more »
  
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  - 23 Jun 2008 at 15:22
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  Excellent
  
  One of the greatest movies I have seen. It leaves you confused about how annoying some people are.
  
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- 390606
- - Shady Shidfar
  - England
  - 30 Nov 2006 at 17:47
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- - 12
  - 1
  UNFORGETTABLE
  
  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 ... read more »
  
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- 17717
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  - England
  - 10 Sep 2004 at 00:12
- - 7
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  Gives an insight
  
  Truly gives an insight into the oppressive lives of Iranian women and the differing views between acceptable or unacceptable behaviour in such a culture! Even ... read more »
  
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- - Smiler84
  - Somerset
  - 16 Feb 2004 at 16:53
- - 6
  - 0
  Iranian masterclass
  
  Not often you find a film about Women's issues in the Middle East that is subtle in content and minimal in style. Still, it's not often you find a film ... read more »
  
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- - Gorp
  - 10 reviews
  - London England
  - 06 Sep 2005 at 15:04
- - 2
  - 1
  Stop whinging before I throw you out of my car!!
  
  Interesting but ultimately unwatchable. I was intrigued for the first two or three sections - this film airs topics that I hadn't associated with life in ... read more »
  
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  - London SE13
  - 03 Aug 2006 at 19:07
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  sensational! less is more..
  
  i love films that just resound with emotional truth and avoid cliche. if you don't have any time for mike leigh, for example, then don't read on... but ... read more »
  
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- - Hugh Palmer
  - Oxford, UK
  - 27 Jan 2005 at 00:03
- - 1
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  Excellent
  
  Being half Italian I will quote: 'il mondo e' paese' or the French would say 'Plus ca change, plus c'est la meme chose', in other words ... read more »
  
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- - Rory Aitken
  - Totnes
  - 11 Jan 2006 at 00:22
- - 1
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  Unbelievably simple!!
  
  This film is so simple that to explain it would probably put the majority of people off! but it is also absolutely enthralling.
  
  Simply put, it is ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 747147
- - Carsey
  - 88 reviews
  - Wisbech
  - 23 Apr 2009 at 21:12
- - 1
  - 0
  Persian Intrigue
  
  An absorbing and thoroughly enjoyable examination of the life of a free thinking woman in contemporary Tehran. Her exchanges with the people she meets are ... read more »
  
  Report this review
- 751424
- - bothyboy
  - 7 reviews
  - Glasgow
  - 02 May 2009 at 15:57
- - 0
  - 0
  the beauty of indi movies
  
  this one is a gem and a must see. it shows you Iran from a woman's perspective. brilliant and a must see
  
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  - beckenham
  - 12 May 2005 at 17:03
- - 0
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  Slow but interesting
  
  I almost didn't make it through this film. It's a series of long shots of passengers and the driver in a woman's car in Tehran. The first sequence ... read more »
  
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- - Nicky
  - Devon
  - 31 Oct 2005 at 10:58

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Critics' reviews
- "...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..."
- 11458
- - New York Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- "A conceptual tour de force and a braniac's road movie, Abbas Kiarostami's TEN goes from chilly abstraction to hot emotion in less than 60 seconds..."
- 11457
- - Los Angeles Times
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- "...[Akbari] seems to shoulder all of the film's contradictions in her world-weary yet spirited defiance..."
- 11456
- - Entertainment Weekly
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59
- "...An exemplary addition to an awesome oeuvre....An unconventional and remarkably moving chamber piece..."
- 11455
- - Box Office
  - 11 Mar 2005 at 12:59

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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 ...