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In a remote area of the Iranian mountains, 20-year-old Afghani refugee Djomeh works on a dairy farm alongside his older countryman, Habib. Every morning, Djomeh drives into town with the farm's kindly owner, Mr. Mahmoud, to whom he confides his scandalous romance with an older widow back home in Afghanistan as well as his blossoming affection for Setareh, the daughter of a local shopkeeper. The ease of their relationship contrasts sharply with the villagers' suspicious and cold attitudes to the
Sep 5, 2001 Wide
New Yorker Films
All Critics (23) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (19) | Rotten (2)
Offers viewers here an intimate glimpse of the everyday realities behind the headlines.
A film that gives you the illusion of eavesdropping on life as it's actually lived, on people as they actually behave.
Hassan Yektapanah's Djomeh, from his own screenplay, continues Iranian cinema's deceptively simple yet exquisitely conducted explorations of the Iranian psyche in the context of a workaday reality.
Djomeh (New Yorker) is not among the best of the Iranian imports -- its thematic compass is smaller--but it certainly shares some of the attributes of the best: patience and a belief that every human face is important.
Agonizingly slow-moving and talky, it consists primarily of conversations between two men in a truck.
An investigation, at once lucid and enigmatic, of exile, loneliness and the fragile possibility of friendship.
It is a sublime, carefully assembled movie.
Deceptively simple, ultimately heart-breaking drama.
This film's painful story is one to which people from all corners of the globe can relate or at least understand.
A melancholic mediation on the constant and often elusive yearning for companionship and love, it also speaks volumes about the barbarity of cultural and religious intolerance.
It is a minor effort, satisfying only on its own limited terms.
One of the better examples of the minimalist cinema popular with Iranian filmmakers
Perhaps the strangest and most rewarding romance you'll see all year.
This gentle and somewhat slow moving romantic fable has a quiet sweetness all its own.
Has a keen sense of the pace of everyday life.
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