Episode 41: Best of 2019 So Far

| Original Score: 80/100 | Oct 4, 2021

The film is a great testament to his being as an artist and as a person. It's easily the best film I've seen this year so far.

| Jul 17, 2020

Breathtaking and transfixing. There is a sadness to 24 FRAMES, but it's never a tragedy.

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 4, 2020

Although 24 Frames is attractive to the eyes and senses, it requires patience since there are no characters or even a plot to follow.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 12, 2019

24 Frames drags for five minutes for each of its 24 'frames', choking its simple concept into a torturous two-hour slog.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 4, 2019

[Kiarostami's] love for cinema was still as vibrant and adventurous as ever, and in a way, this film is how he is passing the torch to us. Training our eye, making us look, experimenting with technology and form -- it's all there.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 31, 2018

I felt like I was watching Kiarostami's failed experiments rather than his successes.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 20, 2018

Given the sense of emotional repression hovering around the edges of Kiarostami's work, the 24th frame achieves something moving and new in his work. It's the moment in "24 Frames" where the entire film's meaning comes together.

| Oct 18, 2018

The repetitiveness of concentrating on watching [the frames]...is like quiet meditation on the power of the image. The cumulative effect is a mesmerising insight into Kiarostami's creative process.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2018

Like all experimental films, 24 frames requires a willingness of the spectator to accept the proposal, of active participation... I personally let myself be carried away by the visual beauty, hypnotic but also thoughtful. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 26, 2018

The posthumous film of Abbas Kiarostami is closer to video art than to conventional cinema. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 23, 2018

Photography, film and painting are conjugated in 24 frames to give rise to a visual spectacle where images do not need words. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 9/10 | Aug 22, 2018

I can't imagine a more invigorating, counter-intuitively perfect final gesture for this of all directors to leave us with.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 30, 2018

Consider it a last playful gift from a master director, who always trusted his audience enough to let them fill in the blanks. Blinking is discouraged.

| Apr 20, 2018

Watching Kiarostami's film, your mind wanders, widening the frame to fit your imagination. As such, the art piece can be seen as a lesson in how to view art.

| Apr 19, 2018

"24 Frames" is slow cinema at its slowest, and as meaningful as you want to make it. Above all, it breathes with the sensibility of an artist who saw beauty in people and places where most of us never thought to look.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 14, 2018

Mostly, nothing goes on in each little film, except a lot actually happens.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 7, 2018

Continuing themes of snow and tides populated with birds (including two combative crows who make multiple appearances), horses, cows, wolves and deer give us a perception of the author's soul, the types of images which moved him.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 5, 2018

Absolutely mesmerizing...feels more genuine than most documentaries, especially for its acknowledgment of the omnipresence of birdlife.

| Mar 17, 2018

I saw great beauty and sadness, trying to imagine the director's final thoughts of his time on this planet, and as a result I think it's a great film, and a last masterpiece.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 16, 2018