1994 · drama · romance
Through the Olive Trees
Directed by Abbas Kiarostami1h 44m1994
When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.
Our read: Through the Olive Trees (1994) reads as a neutral, slow-burn, grounded drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Neutral, slow-burn, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- slow-burn
- signature
- intimate
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