24 Frames

Name: 24 Frames
Genre: Drama
Released: February 2, 2018
Duration: 114 min
Rating: 77

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Janus Films | Release Date: February 2, 2018 | Not Rated

Summary: For what would prove to be his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami gave himself a challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer, bridging the two art forms to which he had dedicated his life. Setting out to reconstruct the moments immediately before and after a photograph is taken,For what would prove to be his final film, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami gave himself a challenge: to create a dialogue between his work as a filmmaker and his work as a photographer, bridging the two art forms to which he had dedicated his life. Setting out to reconstruct the moments immediately before and after a photograph is taken, Kiarostami selected twenty-four still images—most of them stark landscapes inhabited only by foraging birds and other wildlife—and digitally animated them into subtly evolving four-and-a-half-minute vignettes, creating a series of poignant studies in movement, perception, and time. A sustained meditation on the process of image making, 24 Frames is a graceful and elegiac farewell from one of the giants of world cinema. [Janus Films]… Expand

Director: Abbas Kiarostami

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 114 min

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RogerEbert.com Godfrey Cheshire

Feb 1, 2018

As delightful as it is surprising. The surprises begin with the fact that the Iranian master’s last work is, of all things, essentially an animated film. Read full review

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Michael Atkinson

Jan 31, 2018

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. Read full review

The Playlist Bradley Warren

May 27, 2017

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. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

May 27, 2017

It’s an elegantly oblique movie, even for Kiarostami, whose art thrums with quiet ethereal metaphor. Read full review

Ty Burr

Apr 12, 2018

You’ll be in the mood for it or you won’t. 24 Frames is slow cinema at its slowest, and as meaningful as you want to make it. Above all, it breathes with the sensibility of an artist who saw beauty in people and places where most of us never thought to look. Read full review

David Sims

Feb 1, 2018

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.” Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Mar 14, 2018

Still, I’m not sure Kiarostami really intended this film to be a movie. It seems more like an art installation. Of note is the terrific sound design; the sound is credited to Ensieh Maleki, who captures full, rich, peaceful sounds of nature. Read full review

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Amirhosein2005

Feb 11, 2022

This movie is amazing. Two hours of staring at the pristine nature and with soothing sounds ... This film is definitely a glorious ending for Abbas Kiarostami. This movie is so stunning that it still does not go out of sight after the movie is over.

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JLuis_001

Dec 26, 2018

It will only have beauty and meaning if you know how to appreciate it and want to appreciate it.
It's a visual marvel and shows the power of cinema in a language completely different from entertainment.

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