Five Dedicated to Ozu

2003
6.5| 1h14m| en
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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.

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Linbeymusol Wonderful character development!
Cortechba Overrated
Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
Cissy Évelyne It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.
svaksp Don't know why Mr.Abbas Kiarostami directed such a boring movie. It gave me the impression that anyone with some camera and tripod can make a movie if one can accept this as movie. Total disappointment, from the director of 'Where is my friend's house'. This movie don't deserve any ratings. And who is this 'Ozu' anyway ? Nowhere there is any clear mentioning of this character either. These kind of movies shouldn't be made for public view. My expectations of another marvelous movie went thin after watching this piece. I wonder how the Iranian censor board accepted this movie !! Felt sad wasting my time watching this. Please don't waste time on this movie. its a disaster.
HoraLucia I found it charming! Nobody else but Kiarostami can do so little and, yet, get so much. You might think I'm weird, but I was so charmed that I couldn't speak during the movie. While during other movies I comment a lot. The short movie made by him for Lumiere et Companie, the one with the eggs, that one is unbeatable in my heart, but this is wonderful, too. I liked it better than Ten. Kiarostami is, maybe, the best director in my opinion, because he can see things! He doesn't need to use a lot of stuff "brought from home" to illustrate his images, he simply grabs a camera. Not many can do that.. Maybe I don't know to much about movies but I don't care about complicate stuff, all someone has to do is touch my soul. Kiarostami does.
pinkpab Well, I generally like Iranian movies, and after having seen "10" by Kiarostami the night before, I was expecting a great movie. I was very disappointed. This is by far, the worst Iranian film, and one of the most boring Asian movies I have ever seen. If you have never seen a Kiarostami movie before, watch "Ten" instead. If you want some good Iranian movies, you may also try "Sib", aka "The Apple". This movie is divided in 5 parts, and only the fourth, featuring some funny ducks, is worth watching. If this is the first Iranian movie you see, you probably won't want to see any more. I don't blame you, but you will miss some great movies.
Nima Behnoud No story-line which is OK, no Plot which is OK, no dialog which is again OK - NO concept! which is NOT auk. Many people have argued that this film has therapeutic and meditative qualities rather than entertaining! Really? would you like to sit in the theater chair with 200 other people around you and try meditate? There are five long shots of Beach, Ducks, Moon, blank screen and each stay for about 10-20 minutes with some background sounds. It's dedicated to Ozu and I think it's similar to Ozu's work as far as LOOK but definitely not similar as far as concept and storyline. I happen to love kiarostami's Taste of cherry, and slowly starting to wonder if he is being maybe alittle pretentious about certain things! Maybe!

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