Visually, Kiarostami presents his films in a style that is documentary like. Static shots, long shots, slow camera movement, and close-ups all look real. This style …show more content…
The issues in these films as not for an audience’s entertainment, but are real problems people face in Iran. It’s used as more of a method for uniquely demonstrating those issues, but also Iranian life and culture. Thematically, Kiarostami uses his style to put emphasis on what he makes. Every frame has a meaning. Visually, he makes what’s on the frame count, such as in his 1990 film “Close-Up” in which its title decides how the camera will be framed on the main character Sabzian during his most vulnerable moments. With all his films without much music, there is only strict focus on dialogue by every one of his characters. Using this realistic style, void of non-diegetic music, Kiarostami makes audience see what he wants them to see, and hear what is important and what is