Abbas Kiarostami's film
– often abbreviated for convenience to Five Dedicated to Ozu – is just
what its title indicates; a series of five films each comprised of a single
take. All five are completely passive
angles showing a beach or shoreline in the background. Aside from the fact that some of the shots
are entirely motionless, I’m not sure I get what any of this has to do with
Ozu, and frankly the film feels like a fairly pretentious film school project
by a student who thinks he’s the first one ever to hear of Ozu or discover
camera passivity. That said, the shots
are undeniably hypnotic and not without interest - it's just fun to wait and
see what, if anything, will change in the frame, from passerby to a log rolling
around in the surf - but I wouldn’t say that they – individually or combined –
accomplish anything not already done years earlier by Andy Warhol.
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