The Wind Will Carry Us

Iran, France

1999

118 Min

Color

1.85:1

Persian

Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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PROD Marin Karmitz, Abbas Kiarostami

CAST Bahzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi, Shahpour Ghobadi

SOUND Mohammad Reza Delpak, Jahangir Mirshekari, Mohamad Hassan Najm

Venice (Competition): Special Jury Prize, FIPRESCI Prize, 'CinemAvvenire' Award, Toronto (Masters), Karlovy Vary

Synopsis

Irreverent city engineer Behzad comes to a rural village in Iran to keep vigil for a dying relative. In the meanwhile the film follows his efforts to fit in with the local community and how he changes his own attitudes as a result. —IMDb

Director

Abbas Kiarostami

Abbas Kiarostami was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1940. He graduated from university with a degree in fine arts before starting work as a graphic designer. He then joined the Center for Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults, where he started a film section, and this started his career as a filmmaker at the age of 30. Since then he has made many movies and has become one of the most important figures in contemporary Iranian film. He is also a major figure in the arts world, and has had numerous gallery exhibitions of his photography, short films and poetry. He is an iconic figure for what he has done, and he has achieved it all by believing in the arts and the creativity of his mind. —World Cinema Foundation

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ILoveCourtneyHate

10Oct11

The bizarre phenomenon I have of disliking the first film I see of some significant directors (with him, Close-Up), and then adoring the second I see (this beauty here), continues with Kiarostami. Why, i'll never know. Guess i'm a little slow on the uptake...nonetheless, this is a brilliant (what seems to be a) self-(critical)portrait of a fish-out-of-water, the ignorant outsider, the filmmaker.

Miyaki

9Sep11

need a bread with strawberry jam and a glass of milk

© <',))( Astro-Tofupraxographer

29Aug11

"They say that the other world is more beautiful. But...who has come back from there to tell us if it's beautiful or not?" "Prefer the present to these fine promises. Even a drum sounds melodious from afar..." "Prefer the present..."

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