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1978 · short · kanun

Solution

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami11m1978
ElsewhereIMDb6.7142TMDB5.65
  • warm
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • intimate
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Warm, steady, gentle short / kanun, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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A man, unable to hitch a ride back to his broken-down car with a new tire, rolls it back to his car while running.

Our read · Solution (1978) reads as a warm, steady, grounded short · kanun entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want a brief lyrical Kiarostami short of a man and his tire.

ends upliftingyou’ll be fine aftergrabs you earlygrips from the openattention 2/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if you need plot, dialogue or something longer than a short film.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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