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[oscar jubis]

There is a consistency and developmental continuity in Kiarostami's filmography going all the way back to the 1970s. Take for example The Traveler (1974), about a boy who uses a photographic camera cunningly to make money to buy a ticket to the big football game and then falls asleep just before the game starts. You might remember that the last shot of 24 Frames features a person who falls asleep in front of a computer screen playing the last shot from William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives,Dana Andrews and Teresa Wright's romantic kiss.

His last film most closely remembers two of the frames from Five Dedicated to Ozu (2003), particularly the ones that feature a static camera revealing humans and ducks walking from left to right and having at least one of them turn around to stare at the camera.

Kiarostami often remarked that a very positive effect he was hoping to accomplish with his cinema is to make people fall asleep peacefully.

[Chris Knipp]

Great! Thanks.