The film is never anything less than interesting to look at.
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02/04/08
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Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (2008)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:14
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: This visually stunning interior epic inspired by Sufi mysticism explores the magic of storytelling but, like its desert locations, can be a bit dry.
Theatrical Release:Feb 8, 2008 Limited
Synopsis: A visual poem of incomparable beauty, this masterpiece from director Nacer Khemir (Wanderers of the Desert) begins with the story of a blind dervish named Bab’Aziz and his spirited granddaughter,... [More]
Starring: Parviz Shahinkhou, Nessim Kahloul, Maryam Hamid, Golshifteh Farahani
Director: Nacer Khemir
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Reviews for Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul
[It] proves that, even in our troubled times, East and West can still come together, when necessary, to produce something completely and utterly confusing.
10/18/08
Perhaps inevitably, the story and characters in Bab'Aziz never rival the interest of its photography.
04/25/08
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04/23/09
Although beautifully filmed, Bab’Aziz’s form mirrors the actions of its characters, wandering the desert and dancing among the tales, returning to the present-day story for Ishtar, with her wise, old face, to say, 'What happened next?'.
02/11/08
Cinematographer Mahmoud Kalari (Offside) conjures magic from an array of pastels, shimmering lights, and enigmatic ruins.
05/30/08
The cycle of youth and age and the trope of a journey come together inevitably, maybe predictably, but not without sparks of wisdom.
10/18/08
Despite the unhurried pace, the stories unfold without compelling details, and the interweaving is more pedestrian than artful.
02/05/08
Those who find Rumi's wisdom as unknowable as desert sand constantly reshaped by the wind that blows it, will have the same reaction to Bab'Aziz.
04/17/08
The arrival of the film is, to misuse a dervish cliche, something worth singing and dancing about.
02/10/08
An episodic fairy tale that dazzles the eyes and sometimes tries the patience.
02/22/08
With the collaboration of screenwriter Tonino Guerra, Khemir has created a fresh variation on the somewhat tired subgenre of the crisscross, in which the paths of strangers intersect and converge.
02/22/08
It is neither engaging nor enlightening.
09/11/08
More like homework than entertainment
05/22/08
The director, Nacer Khemir, wrote the story 'with the participation of' Tonino Guerra, who has worked with greats such as Fellini, Antonioni and Tarkovsky. Enough said.
02/08/08
Bab'Aziz was shot mostly in parched Iranian landscapes; the film's brilliant cinematographer, Mahmoud Kalari, frames the dunes, rock formations and sandblasted village and cities with a poet's eye, turning real spaces into dreamscapes.
02/08/08
A feast of dervish song and dance to delight the senses, and where Bab'Aziz essentially steals the open air show as an elder who can really shake his whirling dervish booty.
02/06/08
There's nothing wrong with being difficult if there's a payoff at the end. Screenwriter-director Nacer Khemir provides that with a visually stunning final scene that makes sense of everything that came before.
04/04/08
Top Critic[Nacer] Khemir, a poet and a painter as well as a filmmaker... uses the endless, timeless desert landscape to create an existence in which past and present coexist.
03/13/08
Using a mostly seamless series of narrative techniques, the film spins a string of interconnected stories based on Sufi mysticism.
03/14/08
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