New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
Some wonderful films have come out of Iran in the past few years, but A Moment of Innocence, by highly regarded director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is too smug and too self-indulgent to count as one of them.
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Iran, France · 1996
1h 18m
Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Starring Mirhadi Tayebi, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Ali Bakhsi, Ammar Tafti
Genre Drama
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When he was 17, Makmalbaf stabbed a policeman at a rally protesting the Shah's regime. Now a movie director, Makmalbaf wants to recreate that fateful encounter on film, but to do it, he'll need help from the same man he wounded all those years ago.
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New York Post by Jonathan Foreman
Some wonderful films have come out of Iran in the past few years, but A Moment of Innocence, by highly regarded director Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is too smug and too self-indulgent to count as one of them.
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
A fascinating humanist experiment and investigation in its own right, full of warmth and humor as well as mystery.
A fascinating fictional documentary.
Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Finds the impassioned Makhmalbaf in a more contemplative, even whimsical, mood than usual.
A meditation-brilliant, humorous, and moving-on history and memory.
Mr. Showbiz by Michael Atkinson
Normal ideas of truth, illusion, and representation are sent into the meat grinder, and the result is consistently disarming and beautiful.
San Francisco Chronicle by Mick LaSalle
Muddled and endless.
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Almost forbiddingly austere.
San Francisco Examiner by Wesley Morris
Turns into something like a screwball farce, an intimate, self-aware one.
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