18 March 2011

Lovers and other strangers

Copie confirme (Certified copy)

Crit
A very nearly brilliant disquisition from writer-director Abbas Kiarostami about appearance, reality, and the art that inhabits and informs the interstices between.

I've seen it likened to L'Année dernière à Marienbad, and that's a fair comparison, for its have-they-or-haven't-they ambiguity, but its walky-talky-yet-never-getting-dull philosophizing put me in mind of Before Sunrise and especially Before Sunset, and by the way, if you're the one who has my copy of each, I'd really like 'em back now, please.

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