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The Wind Will Carry Us(باد ما را خواهد برد)
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Iran, France · 1999
1h 58m
Director Abbas Kiarostami
Starring Behzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi, Bahman Ghobadi
Genre Drama
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Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. The film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community, and how he changes his own attitudes as a result.
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What are critics saying?
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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