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Rating:

★★★★½ (Essential viewing for lovers of world cinema and metafiction.) Through the olive trees- Abbas Kiarostami

(1987): A straightforward story about a boy trying to return a classmate's notebook. And Life Goes On He argues that because he is an orphan

At its heart, the film is a two-person play about class, pride, and illiteracy. Hossein is a charming tornado of logic. He argues that because he is an orphan who works, and she has lost her parents in the earthquake, they are now equals. He argues that because he can read a few words, he is practically an intellectual. He argues that a house is just a house, but a shared life is everything. He never stops talking. He never stops talking

In Through the Olive Trees , the "good piece" is the realization that the olive trees do not care about our romances, yet they provide the stage upon which we play out our desperate, beautiful need for connection. The film teaches us that sometimes the most powerful dialogue is silence, and the most perfect ending is the one that continues in the audience's heart long after the screen has gone dark.

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Film Background

Rating:

★★★★½ (Essential viewing for lovers of world cinema and metafiction.)

(1987): A straightforward story about a boy trying to return a classmate's notebook. And Life Goes On

At its heart, the film is a two-person play about class, pride, and illiteracy. Hossein is a charming tornado of logic. He argues that because he is an orphan who works, and she has lost her parents in the earthquake, they are now equals. He argues that because he can read a few words, he is practically an intellectual. He argues that a house is just a house, but a shared life is everything. He never stops talking.

In Through the Olive Trees , the "good piece" is the realization that the olive trees do not care about our romances, yet they provide the stage upon which we play out our desperate, beautiful need for connection. The film teaches us that sometimes the most powerful dialogue is silence, and the most perfect ending is the one that continues in the audience's heart long after the screen has gone dark.