 Film critic Ben Zipper believes that Kiarostami ’ s work as a landscape artist is evident in the composition of distant shots of the dry hills throughout a number of his films . He points out that Kiarostami ’ s use of rural locations and remote settings is reminiscent of Sohrab Sepehri ’ s attention to landscape as represented in his poems such as <unk> , in which the poet treats the rural environment realistically and imbues it with a poetic aura . 
