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12/30/06
ABC Africa (2002)
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Reviews Counted:23
Fresh:18
Rotten:5
Average Rating:6.6/10
Runtime: 84 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
Synopsis: Originally intended as a documentary about the orphans of Uganda's destructive civil war, Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami (TASTE OF CHERRY) expanded the scope of ABC AFRICA to include those... [More]
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Reviews for ABC Africa
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02/09/06
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01/22/02
Top CriticHelps to remind the First World that HIV/AIDS is far from being yesterday's news.
01/21/02
Top CriticDespite the locale, ABC Africa is both new and familiar for those who know Kiarostami, and it's a great introduction for those who don't.
06/05/08
Unexpectedly humane and lovely and not at all preachy.
10/20/05
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07/21/05
Top CriticThere is a sense here of an encroaching darkness humbly met, unburdened by one-note feelings such as fear or joy and simply experienced as a profound moment of enlightenment.
06/24/05
No review available.
06/19/05
An upbeat personal film telling in an amiable touristy way the story of the Ugandan orphans.
05/09/05
Will do nothing to advance or detract from the reputation of the acclaimed Iranian filmmaker.
02/27/04
A gorgeous and surprisingly profound meditation on a place and its people.
02/27/04
Kiarostami has crafted a deceptively casual ode to children and managed to convey a tiny sense of hope.
02/24/03
Very much a home video, and so devoid of artifice and purpose that it appears not to have been edited at all.
02/20/03
Kiarostami profoundly displays Uganda's life and culture through his touristy pictures, as deceptively simple as the alphabet
12/25/02
So muddled, repetitive and ragged that it says far less about the horrifying historical reality than about the filmmaker's characteristic style.
08/16/02
There are more shots of children smiling for the camera than typical documentary footage which hurts the overall impact of the film. It's makes a better travelogue than movie.
08/16/02
The you-are-there style ultimately enhances ABC Africa's ability to get inside the soul of Uganda, and of the viewer.
08/15/02
A movie of seemingly limpid transparency and tremendous, understated compassion.
07/20/02
ABC Africa, with its impressionistic style, doesn't provide much in the way of facts ... but it does provide glimpses of the dying.
05/25/02
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