This is definitely worth catching if you ever get the chance. I happened to come across it at a screening for the Kiarostami season here in London and really made my day. It's colour instruction for children, filmed in such a fun, uplifting way that it looks like Kiarostami was having a whale of a time doing it. It's witty, fast-paced and, in a subtle way, poetic, very much like most of Kiarostami's films, but in most other ways, radically different from them. Kanun was really lucky to have Kiarostami making films for them and Kiarostami was lucky to have been employed by Kanun to start his career with because he obviously got a lot from this experience of making films for and about children.
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Goofy but fun
edwartell21 October 2000
Abbas Kiarostami, director of such somber films as Taste Of Cherry, is the last person one would suspect of dabbling in goofy formalist instructional movies. Nevertheless, that's what he does here. A color is brought up - red, for example. Then various red things are shown, starting with that which is found in nature and going from there. And so on for various colors. Also, a boy with a pistol shoots different colored bottles of water and the same boy is the last survivor of a car chase. This is rather inconsequential but fun - like Seseme Street for simpleminded adults.
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