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The New York Times by Dave Kehr
If Mr. Ghobadi's dominant theme is the devastation of the Kurds, his subdominant tone is one of strength, resistance and fertility.
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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
It's part grim Beckett-like drama, part joyous picaresque, and all quite mesmerizing.
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As full of joy as pain, it's a perspective we need to see more often.
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San Francisco Chronicle by Jonathan Curiel
Ghobadi infuses his movie with a humor that can almost be called Seinfeldian, and it's this mix of laughter with tears that gives Marooned in Iraq its big impact.
80
On a miniscule budget, Ghobadi conveys the terror of war, while the beautifully edited sequence in which Iranian villagers make bricks resembles nothing so much as a choreographed dance number.
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Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas
Even though the film's tone grows ever more elegiac, it stubbornly remains a celebration of the Kurdish capacity to endure.
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Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Nothing I've read about Iraq or seen on TV in the past few weeks has felt nearly as real and intimate as this commanding fiction.
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You'll have to seek it out in its limited release, but no current movie is more worth the effort.
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Ends with horrific revelations that are made all the more powerful by the lightness that precedes them. Simultaneously sad and hopeful, Ghobadi suggests the resiliency of a culture in which war is part of the fabric of everyday life.
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Eventually turns somber, with stark depiction of mass graves and suffering refugees. The final scene will break your heart.