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Rhino Season(وەرزی کەرگەدەن ،)

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Iraq, Turkey · 2012
Rated PG-13 · 1h 28m
Director Bahman Ghobadi
Starring Behrouz Vossoughi, Monica Bellucci, Caner Cindoruk, Yılmaz Erdoğan
Genre Drama, History, Thriller

Kurdish-Iranian poet Sahel has just been released from a thirty-year prison sentence. The only thing keeping him going is the thought of finding his wife, who thinks he's been dead for over twenty years. The visuals of the film reflect the poetry in Sahel’s head, resulting in a gorgeously wrought masterpiece of political filmmaking.

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IndieWire by

We simply couldn’t get invested in this film, despite our very best efforts.

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Chicago Sun-Times by Bill Stamets

A poet imprisoned during the Islamic Revolution is released 27 years later. Camera focus, reflections and water droplets are sublimely designed to articulate what his liberty will let him see. [04 Oct 2012, p.4]

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The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore

Haunting feature that crafts fiction from the inspiration of real-life Kurdish-Iranian poet Sadegh Kamangar. Co-star Monica Bellucci may attract much of the attention Stateside, but the film's ravishing aesthetic and multiple points of political interest will make it fascinating to many cineastes.

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Chicago Tribune by Michael Phillips

Rhino Season unapologetically favors poetry over prose, layering its images and time frames in elegantly wrought detail. At times the visual landscape feels fussy. [12 Oct 2012, p.C3]

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Variety by Robert Koehler

Burdened with a complex flashback structure and an unemotional core, this multi-decade saga of an imprisoned Iranian poet and his family has surprisingly little resonance.

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