Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone in Love and Filming Ambiguity
This is the confusion of Kiarostami’s set-up: everything is ambiguous. For each thing he seems to be “telling” us, we question whether he actually means it, if it means anything at all. He never gives us the whole picture.
Joe Wright’s Impeccably Risky Staging of Anna Karenina
As an audience, we simultaneously see a couple completely absorbed in each other’s being, a whirling crowd casting judgment, and a young woman’s heart breaking. We see a coming together, then a ripping apart.