The Wind Will Carry Us(باد ما را خواهد برد)

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Will test your powers of attention. The effort is worth every minute.

The New York Times by Dana Stevens

Its effects seem more like those of a poem or a piece of music than a movie. Requires the reverent darkness and communal solitude of a theater.

Variety by Deborah Young

Takes the refined work of Iranian helmer Abbas Kiarostami up another notch to ever more metaphoric ground.

San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann

Film is often too subtle and languorous for its own purposes: At times, it's close to soporific.

L.A. Weekly by Ella Taylor

"Nothing happening" is everything happening between the lines, in the gap created between what is unstated onscreen and what we bring to the story ourselves.

San Francisco Examiner by G. Allen Johnson

Kiarostami's genius is elusive. His films may be unknowable, but they are undeniably hypnotic, charismatic.

New York Post by Jonathan Foreman

Poetic but tedious and all but plotless.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

On the surface, nothing really happens, but to call it a nonevent would be to miss the point entirely.

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

A film poem of sometimes humbling beauty: a movie that opens up a new world to us - in the mountains of Iranian Kurdistan - with an enchanting freshness and austerity of vision.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker

A celebration of the human spirit nothing short of sublime.