Feels like the first time Kiarostami begins to blend narrative and documentary styles so overtly. To do this he made a courageous about revolutionary mindsets during a time of major social unrest in Iran. In fact the day they shot the interviews, people stormed and occupied the television station they were at. Kiarostami remarks how this film couldn’t have been made at any other time except when it was made, a perfect confluence of factors led to its creation. He said “you can only make a film like this during a transition of power,” he expands with “although it wasn’t my intention at the time, this film is a historical film. People who were caught by surprise at this specific moment in history helped to make the film. If I was to make it again with the same people, the same film wouldn’t be made.”
Feels like the first time Kiarostami begins to blend narrative and documentary styles so overtly. To do this he made a courageous about revolutionary mindsets during a time of major social unrest in Iran. In fact the day they shot the interviews, people stormed and occupied the television station they were at. Kiarostami remarks how this film couldn’t have been made at any other time except when it was made, a perfect confluence of factors led to its creation. He said “you can only make a film like this during a transition of power,” he expands with “although it wasn’t my intention at the time, this film is a historical film. People who were caught by surprise at this specific moment in history helped to make the film. If I was to make it again with the same people, the same film wouldn’t be made.”
