Rating: NR
Genre: Avant-garde / Exp
Theatrical Release: 03/05/2003(USA
Release Date: 11/02/2004
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: AR
Sound: DD2
Run Time: 173 Minutes
Flags: Adult Situations, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Zeitgeist Films

Award-winning Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami uses the casual setting of one woman's automobile as the setting for a subtle but potent look at gender issues in the Middle East. Mania Akbari plays a nameless woman who, over the course of several days, gives a number of friends, family members, and acquaintances a ride in her car across town, among them her young son who is still upset over his parent's recent divorce; her sister; a close friend who has just been abandoned by her boyfriend; an older woman on her way to a worship service; another friend soon to be married; and a veteran streetwalker. As the woman and her passengers ride through Tehran, their conversations cast a light on her views of herself, as well as the ways other women view themselves and the larger world around them. Director Kiarostami shot Ten using two small digital video cameras, one of which was mounted on the car's dashboard, the other in a fixed position in the back seat, using this purposefully stark approach to keep the focus on the characters and their ideas.

~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Mania Akbari - Driver
Amin Maher - Amin
Roya Arabshahi -
Katayoun Taleidzadeh -
Mandana Sharbaf -
Amene Moradi -

Production:
Abbas Kiarostami - Director
Marin Karmitz Abbas Kiarostami - Producer
Howard Blake - Composer
Abbas Kiarostami - Editor
Abbas Kiarostami - Screen Writer
Abbas Kiarostami - Cinematographer

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