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The first Abbas Kiarostami "children's picture" I've seen that felt truly like a directive towards children: brush your teeth, or else you'll live with dentures the rest of your life. Here's how to brush your teeth, here's what foods to avoid and those to eat which will "clean" your teeth. Pardon me while I go brush my teeth.
If Ridley Scott’s most recent Alien movies were akin to George Lucas’ prequels, this is like a J.J. Abrams continuation. For once I wish these types of franchise movies would be original, instead of digging up old references, and presenting a structurally similar story to the first one. I was never bored, and I love this world of Weyland-Yutani Corp., but like so much contemporary cinema, it just doesn’t go far enough. Tame. Fun, but scared of frightening its audience and leaving them uninformed of every, little detail 😩
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
A lot more impressive than I’d been lead to believe, at least for a low budget film of its time. What struck me was its strong sense of atmosphere and deliberate pacing. Even the acting, albeit overdone and exaggerated at times, was less campy than I’d anticipated, and was aligned with the eerie and meditative, elusive, hypnotic tone of the picture. I find it odd that I’ve known about this movie since the first Criterion DVD release in 2000, and…