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Turtles Can Fly(لاک‌پشت‌ها هم پرواز می‌کنند)

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Iran, France, Iraq · 2005
Rated PG-13 · 1h 38m
Director Bahman Ghobadi
Starring Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Saddam Hossein Feysal, Hiresh Feysal Rahman
Genre Drama

Teenage refugee Satellite installs technology for local village residents and organizes dangerous minefield clearing by other children. He becomes interested in Agrin, a fellow refugee with two younger dependents and a deeply troubled past. As Satellite pines after her, Agrin attempts to flee the children she is responsible for and her inner demons.

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90

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

It is a heartbreaking film, and cruelty sometimes seems to be not only its subject but its method. Like the child on a high cliff that is one of its recurring images, the film walks up to the edge of hopelessness and pauses there, waiting to see what happens next.

90

The New Yorker by Anthony Lane

Turtles Can Fly has little space for mawkishness, and the kids are far too cussed to be cute. It is, in every sense, the more immediate achievement: it hits and hurts the eyes (the rainy days are lousy enough, but the skies of royal blue, above such grief, feel especially insulting), and it also seems to bleed straight out of the headlines.

80

Los Angeles Times by Carina Chocano

Ghobadi uses the lack of resources and the surfeit of drama that had been the lot of the Kurds throughout Hussein's dictatorship and both Gulf wars much in the way De Sica and Rossellini used the European tragedies of the '30s and '40s,

90

L.A. Weekly by David Chute

Ghobadi's genius seems supercharged rather than weighed down by his higher calling, and his imagery is so boilingly alive that we come away from it feeling exhilarated rather than depressed.

80

The A.V. Club by Keith Phipps

Turtles Can Fly creates a haunting reminder that collateral damage can't always be measured in casualty rates, and that it goes on long after the news cameras have left the scene.

90

Variety by Robert Koehler

Ghobadi in this pic displays a complete command of his art as he shifts between -- and even blends -- wrenching tragedy and amusing comedy.

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