The Playlist by Bradley Warren
24 Frames snaps still-life photography out of its stasis, giving its images a brief history and miniature stories, even if it’s just the movement of cows in and out of a shot.
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Iran, France · 2017
1h 54m
Director Abbas Kiarostami
Starring
Genre Documentary
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An experimental project made by filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami in the last three years of his life. Working to bridge the gap between filmmaking and photography, he reconstructs the moments before and after a photo is taken. This became a collection of 24 short four-and-a-half minute films, inspired by still images, including paintings and photographs.
The Playlist by Bradley Warren
24 Frames snaps still-life photography out of its stasis, giving its images a brief history and miniature stories, even if it’s just the movement of cows in and out of a shot.
Movement and progress are the organizing principles throughout Abbas Kiarostami's final, posthumously released film.
Even by Kiarostami’s standards, this is a daringly, charmingly tedious piece of cinema, one pushing at the boundaries of what you could even call a “movie.”
The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
The sheer purity of the imagery is entrancing and puts it among his finest, most uplifting works.
The Film Stage by Giovanni Marchini Camia
Although the animation effect is for the most part quite well-rendered and the animals are brought to life with impressive fluidity, there always remains a slightly jarring artificiality that prevents the viewer from fully sinking into the focused and contemplative spectatorship mode he’d intended.
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
We like cows and crows and snow, but it’s Kiarostami’s phenomenological presence that somehow turns every image or camera posture into a question about living, seeing, empathy, and essence.
The A.V. Club by Mike D'Angelo
It’s at once inspiring and heartbreaking to see a master with nothing left to prove still pushing the envelope in the final years of his life. He had plenty left to give us.
It’s an elegantly oblique movie, even for Kiarostami, whose art thrums with quiet ethereal metaphor.
The New Yorker by Richard Brody
Above all, the movie offers the mournful thrill of new methods that Kiarostami didn’t live to develop further.
Yes, 24 Frames is rigorously experimental; it demands patience and engagement. But this haunted ghost-film had me completely entranced.
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