5/10
(Like 8 1/2, not trying to be cute with my rating...OK maybe a little)
Abbas Kiarostami's Five, aka Five Long Takes Dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu, is exactly that - five takes, each averaging about 15 minutes, of various things - a piece of a branch battling with the tide on a beach, a pier and the people walking on it, a beach in winter with dogs frolicking, a bunch of ducks on the beach, and the reflection of the moon in the pitch-black water. Tough thing to rate as it's pretty much what it says on the tin. I can't help but wonder if, like Kiarostami's Shirin, he's playing on the role of the viewer in cinema and the narrative structures that he will inevitably force onto what he's seeing...but then I also can't help but wonder if this wasn't already done by someone like Andy Warhol many years ago. Shirin was far more successful in that regard, Five is little more than a curio.
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