Reviews of It's Winter
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Kim Packard
6Apr08
This film is about a migrant worker who arrives in a village looking for a job. There is work but not for everyone and the employers don’t always pay on time. Whether one has a job or not depends upon how dispensable one is or isn’t and also how adaptable one is to the work environment. Those who become unemployed eventually become discouraged and leave the village looking for better fortune elsewhere. The newcomer in question sticks around long enough to find a job and fall in love with a woman whose husband had left to look for work abroad. How he eventually takes the place of the absent husband is a twist of fate that works very well in this ethnographic film marked by beautiful cinematography.
- Currently 5.0/5 Stars.
Halim Cillov
1Feb08
I really love the Cinematography in this film. It reminded me of the Coen Brothers movies, especially ‘Fargo.’ I also thought the Neo-Realistic style of the movie was very effectively done, and was never over-used or border into sentimentality. This is a simple story about a rebellious and disconnected young man looking for a job in a remote mountain village and the ‘widow’ woman that he falls in love with there. Though, this isn’t a love story like the way the western audiences are used to. On the contrary, this was a highly political film, focusing on the hardships and the struggles of a group of unemployed people, trying to survive the unbearable conditions of Iran’s notorious winter. I especially love the way the director used the silences to communicate to the audiences…
- Currently 4.0/5 Stars.