Roads of Kiarostami
2006 · 32 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 376 VOTES · DIR. Abbas Kiarostami
Overview
Static shots of his photos alternate with footage of director Abbas Kiarostami's car winding through mountain roads, as the Iranian filmmaker muses in voice-over on the significance of the journey and on the path of his work and Persian literature as a whole.
Dialogue Timeline — 92 lines
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00:00:13 Road of Kiarostami
00:05:32 But every so often I saw a view in exceptional light
00:05:53 so as to share an image of nature
00:06:19 but I can't say why - why roads?
00:06:35 I think you have to go back to my childhood
00:06:49 of the road or the path has reappeared constantly in my film.
00:07:10 they can be sentimental, or the search for a scrap of bread.
00:07:39 in contemporary poetry and Japanese haiku.
00:08:13 I struggle down the road heading nowhere
00:08:28 make slow progress as they rush from side to side
00:09:01 An autumn gloaming
00:13:50 the company of others and kept him shut away indoors.
00:14:07 shattering his tranquillity.
00:14:24 and neither books
00:14:40 keep silence and regard the path:
00:15:00 a winding road leading no-where.
00:15:22 discovering routes for travel and travel itself.
00:15:44 and in this boundless existence, each has his own road. sometimes endless, winding
00:18:40 The road is the expression of man's journey, in search of provisions
00:19:02 but the journey of man continues
00:19:21 And we have other ways inside us
00:19:39 and sometimes ways which spring from hatred
00:20:00 the places he is heading
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed92
Dialogue density2.9 lines / min
First line00:00:13
Final line00:20:00
Production Record
DirectorAbbas Kiarostami
LanguagePersian
IMDb votes376