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Chloe wakes up after a year long coma to find her alpha mate sleeping with a woman in her very room. After running away, her plan for revenge begins. One year later, when she is ready to finally reject and release herself and her former mate from the constant pain of their betrayals, it is in the act of her final revenge that she finds her second-chance mate. Her partner starring with her in her last film is not only her second chance mate, but they both soon find that his twin brother is too

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Rebirth: Conquering the Entertainment World

In her past life, Lindsay and the adopted daughter of the Harper family were kidnapped together. Tragically, her biological parents, five older brothers, and childhood sweetheart all chose to save the adopted daughter first, resulting in Lindsay's death. Reborn, Lindsay decided to sever ties with her family and break up with her childhood sweetheart. Determined to survive, she set out to conquer the entertainment industry. Her eldest brother, a powerful CEO in the entertainment world, soon witnessed her star studio rise to the top of the industry. Her second brother, a top agent, saw her become the ace agent in the circle. Her third brother, a popular and talented singer, watched as one of her songs quickly topped the charts. Her fourth brother, a genius new director, found himself envious of her film’s box office success. Her fifth brother, a top young idol, saw her win numerous awards and become a top actress. Eventually, her biological parents and five brothers begged for forgiveness, filled with regret. Even her ex-boyfriend, now a renowned actor, begged for reconciliation. Lindsay, however, refused to forgive them.

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Trillionaire After Divorce

Olivia B. Lawson gave up her life for love. She married her college sweetheart Vincent, who grew colder by the day. ‘Sign these documents to give my mother a piece of your liver; she needs it!’ ‘Your mother? The same one who hates me?’ ‘Stop being selfish, Olivia! I didn't marry a selfish woman!’ To make matters worse, the best friend she trusted conspired against her and slept with her husband. With nowhere else to turn when her life is threatened, she relies on the kindness of a handsome stranger: ‘Help me, my husband wants to steal my organs. I promise to repay you when we get these divorce documents to court.’ Will Olivia regret her proposal when the handsome stranger turns out to be the ruthless and most feared among the 'new money': 'Billionaire' film investor Matteo D'Amico, a wolf in sheep's clothing?

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Mr. Kapoor - Hold My Heart Forever !

When my heart will be on fire and turn black, will you come and pour water to soothe it? Time and again I want to you, time and again I wanna destroy you, yet time and again I wanna snatch you from all and you mine... Samaira Khanna, a superstar and the daughter of the famous Khanna family that ruled the entire film Industry has her life turned upside down overnight when her father was charged with a rape allegation, unable to bear the humiliation, he commits suicide . The entire Khanna empire crumbles and is in shambles. Samaira's acting career comes to a stop when she is offered cheap sidey roles, her mother follows suit with her father and kills herself as well. Samaira is left alone to look after her little ill nephew and her brother who was beaten to pulp by loan sharks Siddharth Kapoor, A ruthless, arrogant scion of the Kapoor empire, master of destiny of Indo Asian economy, a of few words and someone who is notorious for his connections with the underworld is a to be steered clear of at any cost, yet somehow Samaira finds that her paths had crossed with him on several occasions recently. What surprised her more was the fact that everytime they met, she was in a situation where this so called ruthless appeared like an angel, as her saviour who bailed her out.. even if it was just by offering her his shoulder to lean on. That was why when he proposed her for marriage, she didn't think much about refusing, eventually marrying him out of .. at least that's what she thought ! She gave him her heart, will he be able to hold it forever?

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Love Of His Life: The Playboy Fell Head Over Heels In Love

Left at the altar by her fiancé, film industry beauty Christine Ledesma, also known as Cassandra Mendez rebuilt her shattered life. Just when she thought she had finally gotten over him and turned over a whole new leaf, Marty Jacobs the infamous playboy billionaire showed up again to reclaim her. "Mommy, you're back." The little girl sweetly said. Marty came in and walked towards the living room. He put down Christine on the couch. The little girl was delighted to see Christine carried by Marty. The little girl held Marty's hand, looked up to him and spoke, "Mommy, is he my daddy?" The little girl's eyes were twinkling like the stars in the sky. Memories of five years ago came flooding her mind. Christine couldn't utter a word, for she was overwhelmed by the memories of five years ago. The little girl concluded that her mom's silence meant yes, the little girl spoke to Marty "Daddy, did you come back to take us with you?" Baffled, Marty couldn't speak and looked at Christine. Christine had regained her composure and said, "Cassie, sweetie, he is mommy's business partner."

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Take you out (BL)

Vance Haidezo, a charismatic journalist guy. He was assigned for a private TV station project that he was working on. Where he will make a documentary film for the daily life of a billionaire heir. Vance did not expect that the alleged mysterious heir to be is Steven Kiazxon. Steven who was a heartthob, bad boy and his boyfriend when they where in college, whom he still loves dearly. Vance waited Steven after he promised to come back but suddenly disappeared three years ago. Now they meet again. He thought his wait was over but it wasn't because Steven didn't know him anymore who had amnesia. What should he do to make his boyfriend remember him? How would he do that if Steven had already forgotten his true identity? That he can also love and dream of a man like him. "Steven, it's me your Vance. If your mind doesn't remember me, I'll remind you of it in your heart. I feel like you feel that I'm important to you so I'll wait for you to remember me. I read in your eyes that you still love me so I won't give up." What mystery will Vance discover in the incident three years ago that caused Steven to lose his memory?

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Which Abbas Kiarostami Film Is Best For Film Students?

5 Answers2025-08-25 09:02:49

If I had to pick one film of Abbas Kiarostami’s for film students, I’d point straight to 'Close-Up'. It feels like a masterclass in the blurry line between documentary and fiction, and for anyone studying narrative ethics, performance, and editing it’s pure gold. The way Kiarostami lets real people play versions of themselves, then folds their testimonies and reenactments into a single cinematic event—that’s a living lesson in how form can interrogate truth.

When I first taught a film club screening, we paused on sequences to talk about camera positioning, the camera’s moral stance, and how simple long takes force viewers to engage differently. Students can rehearse exercises: remake a short scene twice (once as documentary, once as fiction), then splice them together and discuss what shifts. Also pair 'Close-Up' with 'Taste of Cherry' to contrast social choreography with existential minimalism.

Mostly, watch it slowly—take notes on who Kiarostami puts center frame and why, how the cuts betray or confirm our assumptions, and how silence functions like a character. It’ll make you rethink what a film can do to a story and to a life.

What Is The Runtime Of Abbas Kiarostami Film 'Close-Up'?

5 Answers2025-08-25 02:55:32

I still get a little thrill when I tell friends that 'Close-Up' clocks in at 98 minutes. It’s a tidy runtime for a film that feels like it expands the borders of documentary and fiction at the same time.

The first time I watched it was on a rainy afternoon with coffee getting cold beside me. The 98-minute length meant I could sink into Kiarostami’s patient rhythms without it dragging; there’s enough time for the characters and courtroom sequences to breathe, and for the ethical questions to settle in. If you’re curious about pacing, know it doesn’t rush — the runtime supports a slow-burn unraveling of events.

If you prefer planning your viewing sessions, 98 minutes is perfect: not a whole evening commitment, but long enough to feel substantial. For anyone dipping into Iranian cinema, 'Close-Up' is a compact but powerful entry point that rewards attention.

How Did Abbas Kiarostami Film Portray Iranian Society?

6 Answers2025-08-25 05:44:41

Watching Kiarostami's films feels like sitting on the edge of a quiet street in a village I've never been to, listening to people talk about things that seem small but mean everything. His camera treats ordinary life as if it's the only important thing in the world: children's errands in 'Where Is the Friend's Home?', a man's slow search in 'Taste of Cherry', or the blurred boundaries between reality and fiction in 'Close-Up'. Those long takes and minimal cuts force you to pay attention to gestures, to silence, to the textures of light on mud walls. I first saw 'Close-Up' on a rainy evening and felt oddly complicit—he invites you into moral puzzles without spoon-feeding conclusions.

He portrays Iranian society not as a monolith but as a patchwork of intimate scenes—family obligations, social codes, the small kindnesses and strictures that govern behavior. There's a persistent humanism: people are neither idealized nor reduced to stereotypes. Gender relations, religious presence, and economic hardship are all present but filtered through human stories rather than headlines. For instance, the child's persistence in 'Where Is the Friend's Home?' reveals how social duty and personal conscience intersect in everyday life.

On a sweeter note, I love how his films preserve the sound of ordinary conversation—the clink of cups, the murmur of neighbors—which makes the world feel lived-in. If you want a cinematic portrait of Iran that respects nuance and trusts your capacity to feel complexity, Kiarostami's work is a gentle but persistent teacher. It stayed with me long after the credits rolled.

Which Abbas Kiarostami Film Won The Palme D'Or?

4 Answers2025-08-25 04:23:07

One of my favorite little triumphant facts to bring up at film nights is that the film which won the Palme d'Or is 'Taste of Cherry'. Cannes crowned it in 1997, and it always feels like a neat bookmark when I talk about modern Iranian cinema—Kiarostami's quiet, probing style really knocked people sideways then. The movie follows a man quietly wandering, looking for someone to bury him when he intends to end his life; the whole thing is soaked in long takes, patient conversations, and that peculiar blend of documentary realism and poetic ambiguity that Kiarostami mastered.

I first saw it on a rainy evening with cheap coffee and a notepad, and I still recall pausing to scribble down lines of dialogue. If you like films that give you space to think and leave threads untied, 'Taste of Cherry' is a gift. It also pairs nicely with 'Through the Olive Trees' for a deeper dive into his recurring themes about fate, choice, and the act of looking itself. Watching it feels less like being told a story and more like being invited into a very intimate, moral puzzle, and that’s why it stuck with me.

Where Can I Watch Abbas Kiarostami Film Restorations Online?

4 Answers2025-08-25 11:07:55

I still get a little giddy when I track down a pristine restoration of a favorite film, so here’s what’s worked for me with Abbas Kiarostami’s movies.

I’ve found that The Criterion Channel is a reliable first stop — they’ve carried restored Kiarostami titles like 'Close-Up' and 'Taste of Cherry' at various times, and their Blu-ray releases are often the gold standard for restorations. If you prefer owning physical copies, checking The Criterion Collection’s shop (or the BFI shop in the UK) for their restoration releases is a smart move, since those discs usually include newly scanned prints and solid subtitles.

For streaming, MUBI often programs restored world cinema and cycles through Kiarostami films, so I check their schedule regularly. Libraries and universities can surprise you too: Kanopy (linked to many library systems) has popped up with restored editions for me on occasion. Finally, use a service like JustWatch to quickly see where a specific restored title is available in your region — it cuts down on wasted searches and tells you whether a title is streaming, for rent, or available to buy. Happy hunting — there’s nothing like a clean, quiet Kiarostami print to get lost in.

Why Did Abbas Kiarostami Film Often Use Long Takes?

4 Answers2025-08-25 16:56:19

Whenever I sit down to watch one of Kiarostami's films I get this slow, satisfied feeling like I'm stepping into a quiet room where everything important happens between breaths. I think the long takes are his way of trusting the viewer: he gives you time to notice off‑camera sounds, to watch a face quietly change, to feel the landscape alter the mood. In 'Taste of Cherry' the camera lingers not to show action but to let questions settle and echo.

On a practical level, those extended shots let non‑professional actors live the moment rather than act it, which makes scenes feel raw and true. I also sense a poetic stubbornness—he resists montage and flashy editing because he wants cinema to be a slow conversation, not a textbook of answers. That patience creates space for ambiguity; you leave with more questions and a personal angle on what you saw.

I first noticed this on a late‑night screening with friends, and we all ended up talking about a single five‑minute take for an hour. That’s exactly his trick: long takes turn viewers into collaborators, filling silences with their own thoughts.

Who Scored Abbas Kiarostami Film 'The Wind Will Carry Us'?

5 Answers2025-08-25 18:33:24

I still get a little thrill when I tell people who did the music for 'The Wind Will Carry Us' — it's Hossein Alizadeh. Watching the film late one evening, the score's sparse, resonant tones felt like another character: patient, ancient, and quietly insistent. Alizadeh is a towering figure in Iranian music, known for the tar and setar, and his touch here is more about mood than melody.

Kiarostami uses sound and silence as storytelling tools, and Alizadeh's compositions slide into that space perfectly. The music isn't constantly foregrounded; it appears as subtle threads that tie the rural landscape to the film's contemplative pace. If you like hearing traditional Persian timbres woven into minimalist film scoring, this is a beautiful example.

If you haven't listened to Alizadeh beyond the film, try searching out his solo pieces or ensembles — they give you a fuller sense of why Kiarostami invited him into the project. For me, the score still lingers whenever I think of those long, patient shots.

How Did Abbas Kiarostami Film 'Taste Of Cherry' Change Cinema?

4 Answers2025-08-25 02:16:33

Watching 'Taste of Cherry' felt like being handed the keys to a completely different kind of movie theater. I was in my mid-twenties then, scribbling notes in the margins of a battered film journal, and the way Abbas Kiarostami let the camera linger—the long takes inside a car, the sparse dialogue, the attention to small gestures—punched a hole through everything I thought cinema had to be. He trusted silence and ordinary landscapes to carry weight, and that trust forced me to do some real work as a viewer: to sit with uncertainty, to imagine outcomes, to supply emotions that aren’t spelled out.

Beyond style, 'Taste of Cherry' shifted film culture by legitimizing a minimalist, human-centered cinema on the world stage; winning the Palme d'Or made festivals and distributors look harder at Iranian filmmakers and other storytellers who were working quietly but profoundly. The film’s open-endedness and moral ambiguity nudged later directors toward riskier choices—films that don’t comfort you with neat conclusions but instead leave a question echoing in your head. Watching it again now, I still get that curious, slightly uncomfortable sense that the film respects my imagination—and that, more than any technical trick, is its biggest gift to cinema.

Which Abbas Kiarostami Film Features Non-Professional Actors?

4 Answers2025-08-25 08:36:10

I get a little excited whenever someone brings up Kiarostami, because his use of non-professional actors is one of the things that makes his films feel so alive. If I had to pick one film that most famously features non-professional performers, it'd be 'Close-Up'. In that film Kiarostami literally casts the real people involved in the incident at the center of the story — they reenact themselves, blurring documentary and fiction in a way that still makes my skin tingle.

Beyond 'Close-Up', Kiarostami regularly worked with non-actors: the lead in 'Taste of Cherry' was Homayoun Ershadi, who wasn’t a trained actor when Kiarostami discovered him; and the children in 'Where Is the Friend’s Home?' are non-professionals too, which gives those scenes a natural, spontaneous charm. I love watching how their unpolished reactions create a kind of honesty scripted performances rarely achieve. If you haven’t seen 'Close-Up', watch it with minimal context and let it unsettle you a little — it’s like being let into someone else’s private memory.

Does 'Being There' Have A Film Adaptation?

1 Answers2025-06-18 16:06:44

I’ve been obsessed with 'Being There' for years—both the novel and its film adaptation are masterpieces, but they’re wildly different experiences. The book, written by Jerzy Kosinski, is this quiet, satirical gem that sneaks up on you with its simplicity. Then there’s the 1979 film directed by Hal Ashby, starring Peter Sellers as Chance the gardener. It’s one of those rare adaptations that doesn’t just replicate the source material but elevates it. Sellers’ performance is legendary; he captures Chance’s blank-slate innocence so perfectly that you forget he’s acting. The film’s tone is drier, more deadpan than the book, and it leans into visual humor—like that iconic scene where Chance walks on water (or rather, steps into a puddle while everyone gasps). Ashby’s direction is minimalist but brilliant, letting the absurdity of the story unfold naturally.

The film actually expands on some themes the book only hints at. The political satire feels sharper, especially with Chance accidentally becoming a media darling and political oracle. The way the film uses TV screens as a recurring motif—always blaring in the background—adds this layer of commentary about how society consumes meaninglessness as profundity. The ending diverges too, and it’s hauntingly open-ended compared to the book’s more abrupt closure. Critics still debate whether the film’s ambiguity is a stroke of genius or a cop-out, but that’s part of its charm. If you love the book, the film is a must-watch; it’s like seeing the same story through a slightly warped, funhouse mirror. And if you haven’t read the book? The film stands on its own as a timeless piece of cinema. Either way, it’s a conversation starter—just don’t expect anyone to agree on what it all 'means.'