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Marion + Geoff (and other minimalist movies)

posted 19 years ago by Krustallos
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"10" has received a lot of notice for its audacious stylistic austerity.

However a successful BBC comedy series from two years previously, "Marion & Geoff" http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0283760/ used the same technique, in fact only using one fixed camera, and one character. I do wonder whether Kiarostami ever saw this, particularly as he uses the theme from "The Snowman", a British animated feature, over the closing credits.

I was also reminded of Wallace Shawn and Louis Malle's "My Dinner with Andre" from way back in 1981.

"10" is undoubtably a fine piece of work, but it's not as cinematically groundbreaking as some would have us believe.

[–] TemporaryOne-1 16 years ago

Abbas used the same technique extensively in A Taste Of Cherry and in the lengthy opening sequence of The Wind Will Carry Us. Both films predate the BBC show but proceed the Malle film.

Abbas' Close-Up also uses the same technique briefly in the opening sequence.