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THE PATIENCE STONE
Syngué Sabour
Synopsis
In a country torn apart by a war, a beautiful woman watches over her husband in a decrepit room. He is reduced to a vegetative state because of a bullet in the neck. One day, the woman starts a solitary confession to her silent husband…
Synopsis
In a country torn apart by a war, a beautiful woman watches over her husband in a decrepit room. He is reduced to a vegetative state because of a bullet in the neck. One day, the woman starts a solitary confession to her silent husband…
Our take
Co-written by Jean-Claude Carrière, this spiralling and slow-burn French-Afghan drama stars an excellent Goltshifteh Farhani at the center of a fascinating relationship dynamic, in which a woman, in enigmatic monologue, steadily reveals her secrets to her paralyzed husband.