Movingly presented in a special screening at the largest cinema in Cannes, Abbas Kiarostami’s final feature 24 Frames may be the most experimental film ever shown at the festival. Inspired by his desire to know what happens before and after what's depicted in an image, Kiarostami and a team of supremely talented animators and sound artists have rendered in motion 23 of the Iranian director’s photographs and one Bruegel painting, each brought to life for four and a half minutes.Throughout his career, Kiarostami, who died at the age of 76 last July, asked playful questions about where the line between cinema and life, construction and reality lay, and in later films like Ten (2002), Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003), Shirin (2008), and Like Someone in Love (2012), he has more directly confronted the audience with these innate ambiguities. The constant return suggests the permeable line—the levels of play and fictionalizing—of what cinema...
- 5/26/2017
- MUBI
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