2003 · documentary · iranian
Five Dedicated to Ozu
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami1h 14m2003
Finding himself in a house in the north of Iran by the Caspian Sea, the director picked up his handheld DV camera and began filming the seemingly anodyne events happening on the 500 metres of beach in front of his house—a piece of wood toyed with by the waves, people walking by the sea, indistinct shapes on a wintry beach or noisy ducks.
Our read: Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003) reads as a neutral, slow-burn, inventive documentary · iranian entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, slow-burn, gentle documentary / iranian, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- slow-burn
- gentle
- inventive
- signature
- intimate
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