Ratheesh KrishnaVadhyar (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ratheesh) wrote,@ 2006-09-14 21:09:00 |
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Life, and Nothing More
Abbas Kiarostami's films give the impression that Cinema is not really complete art form for him, but he uses Cinema just as a media to express his opinions and thoughts about Life. I have watched four of his films. All of them have a kind of documentary format, don’t have many professional actors in it, and mostly picturize the real life people and their reactions to various incidents and scenarios in Life. Kiarostami's works don’t look like films in the conventional sense; They are just slices of life from various people featuring in them, including the director himself. But the director skillfully arranges this collection of slices to provide the viewer with some sort of an artistic experience.
Today I watched his 1991 film, Life, and Nothing More. As indicated by the name itself, this film too is nothing but Life. An earthquake has hit the area which included the villages of Poshteh and Koker where his earlier film Where is the Friend's Home was picturized. The director is anxious to find out what happened to the people living in the village, who acted in the film, especially Babak Ahmadpur, who acted as Ahmed. He (Apparently, it's a different person who is playing as the "director", and not Kiarostami himself) travels to the villages in a car, along with his around-ten-year-old son. On the way, he stops at many places, meets several people - children, elderly people, and even a newly-wed couple, talks to them and sees how they react and remember the day of the quake.
The film doesn’t have any specific story, but like other Kiarostami films, this film too takes us through the experience of a Journey, and I liked it.
Abbas Kiarostami's films give the impression that Cinema is not really complete art form for him, but he uses Cinema just as a media to express his opinions and thoughts about Life. I have watched four of his films. All of them have a kind of documentary format, don’t have many professional actors in it, and mostly picturize the real life people and their reactions to various incidents and scenarios in Life. Kiarostami's works don’t look like films in the conventional sense; They are just slices of life from various people featuring in them, including the director himself. But the director skillfully arranges this collection of slices to provide the viewer with some sort of an artistic experience.
Today I watched his 1991 film, Life, and Nothing More. As indicated by the name itself, this film too is nothing but Life. An earthquake has hit the area which included the villages of Poshteh and Koker where his earlier film Where is the Friend's Home was picturized. The director is anxious to find out what happened to the people living in the village, who acted in the film, especially Babak Ahmadpur, who acted as Ahmed. He (Apparently, it's a different person who is playing as the "director", and not Kiarostami himself) travels to the villages in a car, along with his around-ten-year-old son. On the way, he stops at many places, meets several people - children, elderly people, and even a newly-wed couple, talks to them and sees how they react and remember the day of the quake.
The film doesn’t have any specific story, but like other Kiarostami films, this film too takes us through the experience of a Journey, and I liked it.
