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Through the Olive Trees

1994 · 104 min

A gentle, meandering look at love and filmmaking that blurs reality and fiction, asking for patience and rewarding with quiet warmth.

Overview: When the actor in a scene for his film Life And Nothing More… has to quit, a film director casts another man for the part. However, complications arise since the man and the woman who was cast for the scene know each other.

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Tone: warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
whimsicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: love
class
identity
art
politics
Places: countryside
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence none
Sex none

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Scale	Value	0 to 10
Action	1
Horror	0
Humour	4
Realism	8
Romance	5
Tension	2
Darkness	2
Complexity	7
Emotional weight	5

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Genres: drama
Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami
Written by: Hengameh Panahi, Abbas Kiarostami
Starring: Mohammadali Keshavarz, Farhad Kheradmand, Zarifeh Shiva, Hossein Rezai, Tahereh Ladanian, Mahbanou Darabi, Ahmed Ahmadpour, Babek Ahmadpour
Cinematography: Farhad Saba, Hossein Jafarian
Runtime: 104 min
Country: Iran, France
Languages: Persian

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