Through the Olive Trees

Laney 2022-04-20 09:02:25

Few films take a self-disclosure strategy at the outset, as the film always seeks to construct a "reality" that immerses the audience in unscrutinized empathy. In "The Lover Under the Olive Tree", this kind of Don Quixotic "meta-narrative" breaks down the fourth wall between the work and the...

Eliane 2022-04-23 07:04:11

I have watched many Abbas movies: "The Taste of Cherry", "Gone With the Wind", "White Air Balloon", and the famous rural trilogy "Where is My Friend's Home", "Endless Life", "The Lover Under the Olive Tree", watching his films absolutely requires patience, they all reflect the barren life in Iran,...

Chase 2022-04-24 07:01:23

The finale of the Koker trilogy. The successive layers of "reality" are like nested metatexts. The actors in the repeated balcony scenes also switch between the reality in the movie and the movie in the movie. With these hindsights in mind, the appearance of "Close-Up" is by no means accidental. The ending is also great.

Lois 2022-03-19 09:01:09

Girl, you must never agree. This man understands very well that he married to change his class attributes. Of course, this is understandable, but you have to be sober, do you want to become his pawn. Look at his remarks, start to show good, promise something he can't do, and gradually build a house, will allow you to continue to study, will not let you do housework, these are verbal promises, according to his work Ability cannot be achieved. Then he saw that a sweet jujube would not work, so he started to divide the girl's affection, saying that girls can't listen to her grandma, after all, the old people have outdated ideas. Then began to beat the girls, your parents died in the earthquake, and you are not the most beautiful, there are more beautiful girls than you, I can go to propose marriage. Girl, you are right to be silent, read, keep reading, don't jump into the fire pit.