
Ten, the latest film by Iranian master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, focuses on ten conversations between a female driver in Tehran and the passengers in her car. Her exchanges with her young son, a jilted bride, a prostitute, a women on her way to prayer and others, shed light on the lives and emotions of these women whose voices are seldom heard.... (Full plot summary below)
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Ten, the latest film by Iranian master filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, focuses on ten conversations between a female driver in Tehran and the passengers in her car. Her exchanges with her young son, a jilted bride, a prostitute, a women on her way to prayer and others, shed light on the lives and emotions of these women whose voices are seldom heard.
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| Milwaukee Journal SentinelDuane DudekWhatever the film lacks in physical lyricism, it makes up for with a claustrophobic flair that leads you to conclude that Ten can be the loneliest number. |
| San Francisco ChronicleJonathan CurielA minimalist film, Ten looks and feels like a documentary. At the end, there is no big denouement, but a profound realization that the people we see on camera are all aching for answers -- and struggling to come to terms with their lives. |
| Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThese 10 sequences are moments frozen in time, which reveal a surprising amount about the emotional lives of the movie's characters. |
| Film Journal InternationalMaria GarciaLacks the spiritual foundation, the individual search for beauty in the face of the world's indifference, that is the hallmark of Kiarostami's oeuvre. |
| Detroit Free PressJohn MonaghanTen has been praised as a further distillation of Kiarostami's already minimalist cinema. That's true enough, even if his movies still have a tendency to make us carsick. |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealA little more reach would have allowed Ten to turn it up to 11. |
| Globe and MailLiam LaceyTen may strain your patience but that's the high-stakes gamble of this provocative project. |
| MovieMartyr.comJeremy HeilmanIf Ten feels neither like a reinvention of cinema nor a truly fundamentalist attempt to get back to basics, it manages to work best as a distinctive entry in Kiarostami's diverse oeuvre. |
| Slant MagazineEd GonzalezThe key achievement of this minimalist statement is that Kiarostami conveys these truths with nothing more than a simple two-camera setup and a series of naked emotions. |
| BBC.comJamie RussellThis is vibrant, gritty filmmaking that proves that Kiarostami is still one of the most consistently fascinating filmmakers of our times. |