Roads of Kiarostami
Aug 05 2006
•1h 32m
•Documentary
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.
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Abbas Kiarostami
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