The Chorus (1982) poster
1982 · short · kanun · sound

The Chorus

Directed by Abbas Kiarostami17m1982
ElsewhereIMDb7.2697TMDB6.020
  • warm
  • gentle
  • intimate
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Cosy, steady, gentle short / kanun, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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An old man with a hearing aid tires of listening to the noises of the town. But when he takes his aid out he can't hear his grandchildren coming to see him.

Our read · The Chorus (1982) reads as a cosy, steady, grounded short · kanun · sound entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender 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 gentle Iranian short about hearing, silence, and family.

ends warmit stays with youmeditativegrips from the openattention 4/5breezes bysubtitles: full
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightSkip if you need plot or English-language stories even for seventeen minutes.

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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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