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A stimulating and highly accessible cinematic conversation.
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The filmmaker once responsible for virtuoso, tragicomic social critiques like The Cyclist (1987) and Marriage of the Blessed (1989) now delicately works to see how beautiful the world can look when people embrace each other's differences.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Deborah Young
Images and metaphors whimsicially combine in a fine, fast-flowing documentary introducing the Baha'i faith.
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Los Angeles Times by Gary Goldstein
The elder Makhmalbaf, who wrote and directed, puts many spins on this ethereal mood piece — it is by turns poetic, impressionistic, metaphorical and even a bit trippy — without satisfying such genre basics as structure, depth and resolution.
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The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
An intimate, discursive inquiry into religious belief that opens to include questions about cinema.