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Colors

Original title: Rangha
  • 1976
  • 16m
IMDb RATING
6.2/10
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Colors (1976)
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A vibrant film essay exploring the range of hues that color our world, creatively introducing color values to young children as the narrator depicts where each appears in nature or in manufa... Read allA vibrant film essay exploring the range of hues that color our world, creatively introducing color values to young children as the narrator depicts where each appears in nature or in manufactured objects-featuring footage of consumer culture in Iran prior to the 1979 Iranian Rev... Read allA vibrant film essay exploring the range of hues that color our world, creatively introducing color values to young children as the narrator depicts where each appears in nature or in manufactured objects-featuring footage of consumer culture in Iran prior to the 1979 Iranian Revolution.

  • Director
    • Abbas Kiarostami
  • Writer
    • Abbas Kiarostami
  • Star
    • Shahin
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  • IMDb RATING
    6.2/10
    425
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    • Director
      • Abbas Kiarostami
    • Writer
      • Abbas Kiarostami
    • Star
      • Shahin
    • 3User reviews
    • 1Critic review
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    7edwartell

    Goofy but fun

    Abbas Kiarostami, director of such somber films as Taste Of Cherry, is the last person one would suspect of dabbling in goofy formalist instructional movies. Nevertheless, that's what he does here. A color is brought up - red, for example. Then various red things are shown, starting with that which is found in nature and going from there. And so on for various colors. Also, a boy with a pistol shoots different colored bottles of water and the same boy is the last survivor of a car chase. This is rather inconsequential but fun - like Seseme Street for simpleminded adults.
    7maryflowers

    Rhythmic film-making

    This is definitely worth catching if you ever get the chance. I happened to come across it at a screening for the Kiarostami season here in London and really made my day. It's colour instruction for children, filmed in such a fun, uplifting way that it looks like Kiarostami was having a whale of a time doing it. It's witty, fast-paced and, in a subtle way, poetic, very much like most of Kiarostami's films, but in most other ways, radically different from them. Kanun was really lucky to have Kiarostami making films for them and Kiarostami was lucky to have been employed by Kanun to start his career with because he obviously got a lot from this experience of making films for and about children.

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      • 1976 (Iran)
    • Country of origin
      • Iran
    • Language
      • Persian
    • Also known as
      • The Colours
    • Production company
      • Kanoon Parvaresh Fekri
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