ABC Africa
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DVD Details
- Rated: Unrated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 24 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: June 21, 2005
- Originally Released: 2002
- Label: New Yorker Films
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Directed by | Abbas Kiarostami | |
Edited by | Abbas Kiarostami | |
Screenwriting by | Abbas Kiarostami | |
Produced by | Marin Karmitz & Abbas Kiarostami | |
Director of Photography: | Seifollah Samadian |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: B --
Kiarostami profoundly displays Uganda's life and culture through his touristy pictures, as deceptively simple as the alphabet
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Old School Reviews
...Mr. Kiarostami's genius is to capture both the simplicity and the complication. The richness and emotional impact of ABC Africa comes partly from the balance it achieves between the director's personality and his vast, terrible subject...
New York Times
A gorgeous and surprisingly profound meditation on a place and its people.
Washington Post
Rating: B --
The you-are-there style ultimately enhances ABC Africa's ability to get inside the soul of Uganda, and of the viewer.
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Dallas Morning News
Rating: 3/4 --
There is a sense here of an encroaching darkness humbly met, unburdened by one-note feelings such as fear or joy and simply experienced as a profound moment of enlightenment.
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Slant Magazine
Rating: C --
The people in ABC Africa are treated as docile, mostly wordless ethnographic extras.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: C --
Very much a home video, and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Product Description:
Originally intended as a documentary about the orphans of Uganda's destructive civil war, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami (TASTE OF CHERRY) expanded the scope of ABC AFRICA to include those stricken by Africa's massive AIDS epidemic and the people who work tirelessly to improve the conditions of their country. His impressionistic travelogue captures the destruction of war and the ravages of disease, but also the determined and optimistic spirit of those who work for a brighter future for Uganda."
Kiarostami was invited by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to film in Uganda. He brought along a small crew and several hand-held digital video cameras to capture both the expansive beauty of the Ugandan landscape and the up-close, personal ravages of war, poverty and disease. Taking advantage of the flexibility of digital video, Kiarostami and his crew are able to capture intimate, honest moments with a few of the millions of Ugandan orphans and AIDS patients, and show gritty, unconventional views of the war-torn country.
Kiarostami was invited by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) to film in Uganda. He brought along a small crew and several hand-held digital video cameras to capture both the expansive beauty of the Ugandan landscape and the up-close, personal ravages of war, poverty and disease. Taking advantage of the flexibility of digital video, Kiarostami and his crew are able to capture intimate, honest moments with a few of the millions of Ugandan orphans and AIDS patients, and show gritty, unconventional views of the war-torn country.
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- Sales Rank: 63,303
- UPC: 717119829544
- Shipping Weight: 0.25/lbs (approx)
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