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Chicago Sun-Times by Jim Emerson
What's exceptional about The Silence is its style.
The Silence (سکوت)
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- Iran,
- Tajikistan,
- France
- 1998
- · 76m
Director
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Cast
Tahmineh Normatova,
Nadereh Abdelahyeva,
Goibibi Ziadolahyeva
Genre
Drama,
Music
In Tajikistan, a blind 10-year-old boy – who has an incredible skill in tuning musical instruments – works in an instrument-making workshop to earn rent money for him and his mother. But his fascination with the music he hears each day causes him to lose track of time and get to work late, jeopardizing his job.
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80
Village Voice by Chuck Wilson
Making his feature debut, Swiss-born writer/director Baran bo Odar has turned Jan Costin Wagner’s 2007 novel The Silence into a taut, beautifully acted thriller.
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Total Film by Philip Kemp
In his feature debut, Swiss director Baran bo Odar counterpoints the tranquillity of the landscape with the mental torment of everyone involved, and what could have been just another serial-killer whodunit becomes a complex study of grief, obsession and the persistence of guilt.
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