FREE ON DAILYMOTION Abbas Kiarostami - Through The Olive Trees

Abbas Kiarostami's third film is about filmmaking and also plays with the possibilities of film itself: Somewhere between fiction and documentary. It's part of an unofficial trilogy set in Koker. The topic: The intellectuals of Iran. An actor gives the director (why not Kiarostami himself?) on the set of a fictional film. Kiarostami staged in the style of the early neo-realists and yet one still thinks more than once that here just before our eyes the cinema is once again being invented. Sure, Kiarostami stages on the streets with non-actresses and integrates real elements of action - but his style is also enormously complex and offers a complex superposition of actor and role as well as story and storyteller. Even the screening and the audience are in a strange relationship in this film, which questions everything: the difference between film and reality. Kiarostami condenses all this in a simple parabolic story with just as simple characters that seem almost a bit boring. For those who simply want to follow the plot, this may be disturbing, as it is difficult to follow and feel with Kiarostami's characters. But those who expect a piece of cinema aesthetics and are familiar with Persian film are exactly right in Kiarostami's work!