Iran,
1989, 86 min
Directed by:
Abbas KiarostamiScreenplay:
Abbas KiarostamiComposer:
Mohammad Reza AligholiPlots(1)
In Abbas Kiarostami’s second documentary feature about education, the filmmaker himself asks the questions, probing a succession of invariably cute first- and second-graders about their home situations and the schoolwork they must do there. It emerges that many parents are illiterate. Tellingly, many kids can define punishment (the corporal variety seems common) but not encouragement. (Criterion)
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