Days in the Country: Representations of Rural Space and Place in Abbas Kiarostami’s Life and Nothing More, Through the Olive Trees and The Wind Will Carry Us Stephen Bransford December 2003 Abbas Kiarostami As several critics have noted, the films of Abbas Kiarostami are characterised by a complex interplay between documentary and fiction. This in-depth essay seeks a fuller understanding of this interplay through an analysis of how space and place are articulated in three of his films.
