Ten (2002)

Director:

Abbas Kiarostami

Writer:

Abbas Kiarostami

Release Date:

18 September 2002 (Belgium)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Ten sequences examine the emotional lives of women at significant junctures.

Plot Keywords:

Prayer | Docudrama | Prostitution | Mother Son Relationship | Religion

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Mania Akbari	...	Driver
Amin Maher	...	Amin
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Kamran Adl
Roya Arabshahi
Amene Moradi
Mandana Sharbaf
Katayoun Taleizadeh

Directed by
Abbas Kiarostami

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Abbas Kiarostami

Produced by
Marin Karmitz	....	producer
Abbas Kiarostami	....	producer
Caley Thomas	....	associate producer

Cinematography by
Abbas Kiarostami

Film Editing by
Vahid Ghazi
Abbas Kiarostami
Bahman Kiarostami

Production Management
Nicolas Girard Deltruc	....	assistant production manager
Nathalie Kreuther	....	executive in charge of production

Camera and Electrical Department
Morteza Tabatabaii	....	still photographer

Editorial Department
Vahid Ghazi	....	assistant editor
Bahman Kiarostami	....	assistant editor
Mastaneh Mohajer	....	assistant editor
Mazdak Sepanlu	....	assistant editor
Morteza Tabatabaii	....	assistant editor
Reza Yadzdani	....	assistant editor

Other crew
Nicolas Girard Deltruc	....	assistant to producer
Nicolas Girard Deltruc	....	production assistant
Guillaume Lips	....	digital grader

Production Companies

• Abbas Kiarostami Productions
• Key Lime Productions
• MK2 Productions

Distributors

• BIM Distribuzione (2002) (Italy) (theatrical)
• Contact Film Cinematheek (2003) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Euro Space (2003) (Japan) (theatrical)
• Filmcoopi Zürich (2002-2003) (Switzerland) (theatrical)
• MK2 Diffusion (2002) (France) (theatrical)
• Zeitgeist Films (2003) (USA) (theatrical) (subtitled)
• Califórnia Home Vídeo (2004) (Brazil) (DVD)
• Califórnia Home Vídeo (2004) (Brazil) (VHS)
• Madman Entertainment (2004) (Australia) (all media)
• Madman Entertainment (2004) (New Zealand) (all media)
• Moskwood Media (2003) (Netherlands) (VHS)
• Seville Pictures
• Zeitgeist Video (2004) (USA) (DVD)

Also Known As:

Runtime:

France:91 min (Cannes Film Festival) | Germany:94 min | UK:92 min | USA:94 min | Portugal:90 min | Argentina:94 min

Country:

France | Iran | USA

Language:

Persian

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.66 : 1

Sound Mix:

DTS

Certification:

France:U | Germany:12 | Hong Kong:I | Sweden:Btl | Switzerland:10 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:10 (canton of Vaud) | UK:12 | Switzerland:12 (canton of Zurich) | Argentina:Atp | Australia:PG

Filming Locations:

Tehran, Iran

Company:

Abbas Kiarostami Productions

Trivia:

Chosen by "Les Cahiers du cinéma" (France) as one of the 10 best pictures of 2000s (#10).

Quotes:

Prostitute:[to a Married woman] You are wholesailers. We are retailers.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in 10 on Ten (2004)

Soundtrack:

Walking In The Air

intriguing, exploratory and honest

Ten is an intriguing movie. Kiarostami explores the abilities of digital camera by mounting it at just two fixed angles on the dashboard of a car, showing us almost only the driver's and the passenger's faces. Such a stationary structure surprises by its moving content, which takes shape as the movie unfolds.

The driver is a young Iranian divorcée, recently remarried, whose conversations with a son, sisters, a young and an old woman makes up the ten episodes of the movie.

The performance taken from the kid is astonishingly natural, and other characters also appear to be just playing their everyday lives. Kiarostami opens an eye through the little gap of its two fixed digital cameras on the mundane facts of the Iran's capital life as experienced by a typical middle-class woman. The plots are so natural no one can find a better way of experiencing the knotted, contradictory complexity of such a woman's life in Iran from outside. The flow is of the scenes is smooth and the dialogues are, at least to the Iranian audience, courageous and funny, though familiar at the same time. It's a movie worth watching more than once.