165/200
the father you never saw
but want to avenge
184/200
The jolting and somewhat terrifying hyper-violent realistic sound design of Heat drums in my ears like music yet it reminds me of the complicated adrenaline-filled world our characters live in. It’s a brutal tale of cat and mouse chase. Every character feels alive primarily because he or she has his own arc that contributes to the narrative of the film as a whole. It took me some time to get here though. To truly understand and see thoroughly Mann's…
175/200
You think with time, you've become wiser and more mature as a filmgoer and then you revisit Kiarostami's work and realize how he's still so philosophically rich and way fucking ahead of you at every single step. What an extraordinary narrative structure and immaculate framing mechanism... His ability to be cinematic yet remain completely grounded at the same time is a thing to behold here. There's something unique as to how Kiarostami understood and saw life that consistently draws…