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BrandonHabes3.0

Olmi. Kiarostami. Loach.Three auteurs. Three stories. Three ways to tease a sociological metaphor. A triptych made in episodic format carved from my least favorite cinematic tradition—the 60s European omnibus—but the film tries its best to unite these stories under a single theme while married to a single location. We’re on a train headed from Central Europe to Rome. Tickets are the currency to buy comfort and avoid hassle, but they’re really a metaphor for class struggle and social standing. Illegal refugees get threaded throughout each tale, speaking to the larger European mood of how the country deals with its immigration problem. Apart from its unevenness, I had a good time with this one. And holy shit! Did Olmi really create a Woody Allen fantasy? Old dude erotically daydreaming about a young, beautiful blonde? The setup isn’t as creepy as Woody often makes it, but you can’t unsee these things once you’ve been salaciously wooed by the Wood. The Kiarostami and Loach segments are much stronger, more thematically tied, each playing their hand with how the tickets create social division and sacrifice, threats of deportation and first-class entitlement, with Loach’s piece taking the cake out of the three. If anything, TICKETS revealed how PUMPED I am to tackle Loach’s filmography!Kiarostami Ranked

Cindy T4.0

Tickets is a collaborative film involving three filmmakers: Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, and Ken Loach. The film follows events on a train ride across Italy toward Rome. Each filmmaker contributed a short film to create the full film. The only thing that links the shorts together, other than the train, is an Albanian refugee family that appears in all three shorts. Olmi's short is about a professor who daydreams about having a romance with a colleague from work; Kiarostami's short is about a widow of a general who bosses around a young man accompanying her to the general's memorial service as part of his community service; and Ken Loach's short is about three Scottish football fans heading to Rome to attend a match.I found Olmni's short, which begins the film, to be the weakest of the three. Kiarostami's and Loach's shorts are very representative of their style. That is, if you are familiar with either filmmaker's work, you will identify which short is his without looking at the credits. Kiarostami's short is perhaps the most challenging of the three to interpret, whereas Loach's short is simple and funny. Like the Kiarostami-penned film The Deserted Station, Tickets is about interactions with people and how they affect you. I think it is an interesting film to explore if you are a fan of any of the three filmmakers.Apparently, the idea for the film came from Kiarostami, who chose Olmi and Loach as the filmmakers he most wanted to collaborate with. His choices make me admire Kiarostami all the more.

Krommedijk4.0

Three stories by three different directors: Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami and Kern Loach. All stories have their charms and strengths and stand out in subtle observations of human behavior, but the third story, by Ken Loach about three Celtic supporters on their way to a European cup final in Rome, is just perfect - I watched every second of it with a huge smile.