ABC Africa
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- Starring: Abbas Kiarostami, Seyfolah Samadian
- Summary: A documentary about the tragedy of the children whose parents have died of AIDS and are now stranded in a refugee camp in Kampala, Uganda.
- Director: Abbas Kiarostami
- Genre(s): Documentary
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Mixed: 3 out of 11
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90Beyond giving a human face to Uganda's crises, Kiarostami attempts to capture the actual place, a swirl of contradictions as vibrant and beautiful as it is troubled.
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80A gorgeous and surprisingly profound meditation on a place and its people.
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80Kiarostami shoots Africa with an uncanny verisimilitude, coming close here to his idea of a "poetic cinema" indebted more to poetry and music than the theatrical novelistic storytelling tradition.
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50It's not enough for the film to show us a child's corpse wrapped in cardboard; we've got to step back to see Kiarostami himself shooting the sad sight, so that it becomes a Godardian ironic statement.
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Positive: 2 out of 3
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