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Kandahar(Safar e Ghandehar)

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Iran, France · 2001
1h 25m
Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Starring Ike Ogut, Nelofer Pazira, Hassan Tantai, Sadou Teymouri
Genre Drama

Nafas, a young journalist, fled her homeland of Afghanistan during its civil war with the Taliban and took refuge in Canada. However, after receiving a letter from her suicidal sister, who has vowed to put an end to her life before the coming solar eclipse, Nafas plots to re-enter her turbulent homeland.

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91

Portland Oregonian by

The director manages to maintain a steady streak of grim humor. Extreme repression can be bleakly funny in its idiocy, when viewed from a distance.

50

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

Kandahar feels like a Magritte painting rendered in sand tones, and your eyes are drawn to the screen. There aren't enough of these moments, though, and Mr. Makhmalbaf lessens their power by repeating them.

90

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

This remarkably revealing and timely film, in which the depiction of pain and sorrow is suffused with a sense of beauty and a graceful, flowing style, more than lives up to glowing advance notices.

88

Chicago Tribune by Michael Wilmington

Watching this film wakes you up; it is a window on an Iran and an Afghanistan we should have taken account of long ago -- seen though a master's eye, felt through a poet's touch.

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