Abbas Kiarostami - 1974
Wonderful first picture. Combination of those still longer shots. The he moves in, and often shots (longish takes) of just a head, with a non-twitchy editing preocedures enhances the worries. Shot in a black and white of great beauty. Moves to almost complete black. Not simple in a landscape sense, but pictorially does not muck about with laborious symbolisation.
Story becomes crucial to us because of point of view. Telling details, like goalposts.
Genuniely thoughtful cinema. Theme of Kiarostami if people having 'good' goals, we sympathise and are with them, but perhaps going too far, compromising themselves, Selling of goalposts and the remarkable scene with the camera. Kiarostami not afraid of a wry look at characters (we know he shouldn't fall asleep...), but not mocking. They escape our ability to moralise. A couple of interesting, less classical Kiarostami moments; such as the dream.
And some lines that could sound bathetic elsewhere are simply... true. 'You're my friend, won't you help me?'.
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