This is an unusual film of exceptional values--75 minutes long in color, with hardly any spoken dialogs. I saw this Iranian film in Farsi without English subtitles at the Early Iranian cinema retrospective on-going International Film Festival of Kerala, India. That I was watching a print without subtitles did not make a difference as there were very few lines of spoken dialogs.
This is a very accessible film for any audience to enjoy--its story and values are not merely Iranian, it's universal.
The film is set in rural Iran that had not tasted petro-dollar prosperity. The setting is on fringes of desert land, where water is scarce, rainfall scanty and hardly any blade of grass is green. Add to it wind and dust that buffets and whips man and animal and you can imagine plight of the people who live on the fringes of society.
The film is moving tale of a young teenager returning to his village with a goat--only to find his family and villagers have moved on to escape natures vagaries and that one old man remains. He gives the goat to him and goes in search of his family. Water is scarce and well water it treated with reverence and never wasted.
师伟,黄非,李景波,邸力,方化
黄晓明,邓超,佟大为,杜鹃,王真儿,乔治·安东,杨晨,张籽沐,雷昊汶,佟磊,刘天佐,Claire Quirk,Daniel Berkey,公翠英,于膨玮,冯仑,宇轩,胡明杨,柏明,唐晓峰,凯特琳·菲茨杰拉德,杨轶,吴越坤,张跃德,毛大庆,田朴珺,John Taylor,闫锐,Barbara Malley,Tracey Ilgner,Catherine Gibson,Anthony Santoro,艾梓童,黄卫,黄天齐,康晟闻,雷瑷嘉
陈西贝,宋洋,启航
徐爽,士东
段奕宏,郭碧婷,戴立忍,刘雅瑟,谢依霖,谢楠,冯馨瑶
基姆·古铁雷斯,玛尔塔·埃图拉,安东尼奥·德·拉·托雷
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