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12/30/06
Djomeh (2001)
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Reviews Counted:21
Fresh:19
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.3/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Dramas
Theatrical Release:Sep 5, 2001 Limited
Synopsis: DJOMEH, a quietly powerful Iranian film about a young Afghani farmer who falls in love with a local woman, concentrates on the simplicity of daily routines while pointing out the magic and emotion... [More]
Starring: Jalil Nazari, Mahbobeh Khalili, Rashid Akbari, Mahmoud Behraznia
Director: Hassan Yektapanah
Reviews for Djomeh
An investigation, at once lucid and enigmatic, of exile, loneliness and the fragile possibility of friendship.
09/06/01
Top CriticHassan 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.
09/28/01
Top CriticHas a keen sense of the pace of everyday life.
09/06/01
It is a sublime, carefully assembled movie.
03/01/02
Chekhov in the Iranian mountains: intriguing!
08/24/01
Among the most formally accomplished of new Iranian films.
09/04/01
Top CriticA 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.
12/17/01
Deceptively simple, ultimately heart-breaking drama.
03/01/02
[S]hows such a painterly eye for framing and composition that the story is almost superfluous to the glory of its pictures.
09/06/01
Top CriticMore realistic and much more enjoyable to watch than something packed full of professional actors (like America's Sweethearts).
08/08/01
Perhaps the strangest and most rewarding romance you'll see all year.
09/07/01
A modest, unpretentious film whose heartfelt humanism shines through.
07/24/01
This gentle and somewhat slow moving romantic fable has a quiet sweetness all its own.
09/06/01
A film that gives you the illusion of eavesdropping on life as it's actually lived, on people as they actually behave.
02/07/02
Top CriticThis film's painful story is one to which people from all corners of the globe can relate or at least understand.
02/20/02
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.
09/26/01
Top CriticOne of the better examples of the minimalist cinema popular with Iranian filmmakers
11/26/01
Offers viewers here an intimate glimpse of the everyday realities behind the headlines.
03/15/02
Top CriticIt is a minor effort, satisfying only on its own limited terms.
12/09/01
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