10

Kiarostami mounted two digital cameras on the dashboard of a car: one turned towards the wealthy young woman driver, and the other towards the person in the passenger seat. In 10 separate sequences, hardly intervening at all, he films the people in the car and reveals their inner world. In the first sequence we watch the driver’s young son accusing her: he hasn’t forgiven her for divorcing his father and remarrying. This is followed by nine other conversations with women both known and unknown to the driver. The digital camera captures their raw emotions with a rare frankness. What gradually emerges from the film is not simply the portrait of one woman, but of a society where women are trying to find a voice of their own.