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2002 Certificate 12
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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
    • "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
    • "...[Akbari] seems to shoulder all of the film's contradictions in her world-weary yet spirited defiance..."

    • 11456
    • "...An exemplary addition to an awesome oeuvre....An unconventional and remarkably moving chamber piece..."

    • 11455
 

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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 ...

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