Ten (2002)

Highly Recommended

Iran/France

Feature Film

Original Title: 10

Writer/Director/Cinematographer: Abbas Kiarostami

Cast: Mania Akbari, Amin Maher, Kamran Adl, Roya Arabshahi, Amene Moradi, Mandana Sharbaf, Katayoun Taleizadeh

Kiarostami’s beautifully simple yet never simplistic film follows a wealthy, attractive, and amiable but put-upon Tehranian artist as she gives ten rides to family, friends, and strangers (including her bratty, misogynistic son and her decidedly fragile sister), each captured with a static dashboard mounted camera, gradually building-up a portrait that sheds light upon the plight of the modern, urban Iranian woman. Iain.Stott