Homework (1989)
(Mashq-e Shab)
Country: IR
Technical: col 86m
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
A filmmaker who determines to make a film about attitudes to homework among pupils of a particular school finds himself pursuing an investigation into rewards and punishment (mostly the latter), and the frustration felt by parents having to supplement schoolteaching when they are unfamiliar with the curriculum or how it is taught.
Review:
Gripping 'long hard look' typical of the cumulative power of this director's work, most shots being confined to children's heads talking straight to camera, interspersed with the impassive, sometimes sympathetic gaze of Kiarostami. The conclusion, where an underachieving, emotionally terrorized young boy recites perfectly a poem in praise of the joy of creation, is both triumphant and ironic.
(Mashq-e Shab)
Country: IR
Technical: col 86m
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
A filmmaker who determines to make a film about attitudes to homework among pupils of a particular school finds himself pursuing an investigation into rewards and punishment (mostly the latter), and the frustration felt by parents having to supplement schoolteaching when they are unfamiliar with the curriculum or how it is taught.
Review:
Gripping 'long hard look' typical of the cumulative power of this director's work, most shots being confined to children's heads talking straight to camera, interspersed with the impassive, sometimes sympathetic gaze of Kiarostami. The conclusion, where an underachieving, emotionally terrorized young boy recites perfectly a poem in praise of the joy of creation, is both triumphant and ironic.
(Mashq-e Shab)
Country: IR
Technical: col 86m
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: doc.
Synopsis:
A filmmaker who determines to make a film about attitudes to homework among pupils of a particular school finds himself pursuing an investigation into rewards and punishment (mostly the latter), and the frustration felt by parents having to supplement schoolteaching when they are unfamiliar with the curriculum or how it is taught.
Review:
Gripping 'long hard look' typical of the cumulative power of this director's work, most shots being confined to children's heads talking straight to camera, interspersed with the impassive, sometimes sympathetic gaze of Kiarostami. The conclusion, where an underachieving, emotionally terrorized young boy recites perfectly a poem in praise of the joy of creation, is both triumphant and ironic.