One of the most popular and influential Iranian filmmakers of his era, Mohsen Makhmalbaf was born in Teheran on May 29, 1957. As a working-class teen, he became involved with a militant terrorist group battling against the Shah’s regime, and at the age of 17, he was sentenced to die after stabbing a policeman. Ultimately, his youth allowed him to escape the fate of a firing squad, and after serving only five years of his sentence, he was freed in the wake of the country’s 1979 Islamic revolution. After his release, Makhmalbaf helped establish an artists’ group known as the Islamic Propagation Organization, and he became a prolific writer of plays, essays, short stories, and finally screenplays.
His first filmed script was 1981’s The Explanation, and he directed his first feature, Nassouh’s Repentance, the following year. Throughout the remainder of the decade, he wrote and directed roughly one film a year, each wildly different in style and content. Among his other early works were… read more
Child is color, love is color, death is color, Life is color. Red, blue, green, yellow, white... and black.
Gabbeh (1996) DIR Mohsen Makhmalbaf SCR Mohsen Makhmalbaf 75 Min behind every cradle lies a tomb life is color
How fully can a film-maker use the resources available to him/her through the medium of film? : sound, color, time, as: fictional narrative, historical document, political statement? I have not seen… read review