Through the Olive Trees

1994 [FA]

Action / Drama

46
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 88% · 16 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 88% · 1K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.7/10 10 11605 11.6K

filmmaking criterion film within a film meta meta cinema

Plot summary

When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

Director

Abbas Kiarostami Photo
Abbas Kiarostami

Top cast

Jafar Panahi Photo
Jafar Panahi as Dastyar
Khodabakhsh Defaei Photo
Khodabakhsh Defaei as teacher
Ahmed Ahmed Poor Photo
Ahmed Ahmed Poor as Himself
N. Boursadiki Photo
N. Boursadiki as Tahra
720p.BluRay 1080p.BluRay
899.96 MB
1204*720
Fa 2.0
NR
Subtitles fa  
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 13
1.6 GB
1792*1072
Fa 2.0
NR
Subtitles fa  
23.976 fps
1 hr 43 min
Seeds 58

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by yadavanita-18093 8 / 10

A Movie about making a movie but not like a Documentary but feels like a complete Movie itself.

Abbas Kiarostami's movies along the likes of Mr.Yasujiro Ozu and Edward yang are just like a calm stream of river that keeps on flowing eternally providing neverending relief, life and peace. If you have enough patience and interest these movies will never bore you, and you could even watch them for many hours if their runtime was even mkre, but at last provide you with a feelgood experience as their movies are so close to our everyday reality that they feel like the stories in them could happen anywhere around us in any part of the world. Third part of Abbas kiarostami's Koker trilogy providing behind the scenes outlook to "And life goes on...(1992)", almost feels like a complete story in itself about 2 youngsters trying hard to find eachother in all the tension surrounding, after the 1990 earthquake. The minimalistic director Abbas kiarostami does wonders in almost his every movie that many action directors could not, a true genius.
Reviewed by moviesknight 8 / 10

Life, love and rebuilding

I like the work Abbas Kiarostami had done. He focusses on things which we ignore, the common aspects of life, only we have have the eyes we can see much more. He does this again and again. It is in these moments where actually life happens which we humans tend to igmore so often that it is cruel.As for the ending, it kind of is open, but how fast the boy ran at the end, I tend believe it is because of the happiness. But it is really upto you how you percieve this, as you are the man at the mountain who saw this, not knowing the conversations.
Reviewed by alansabljakovic-39044 7 / 10

Abbas made legendary films

The last one in the Koker trilogy but not forgotten. This one could only be described by legendary Benoit Blanck and this is how he would describe it: 'We must look a little closer. And when we do, we see that the doughnut hole has a hole in its center. It is not a doughnut hole, but a smaller doughnut with its own hole, and our doughnut is not holed at all!'
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