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
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3/4 |
Offers viewers here an intimate glimpse of the everyday realities behind the headlines. Full Review |
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B+ |
It is a sublime, carefully assembled movie. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Deceptively simple, ultimately heart-breaking drama. Full Review |
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71/100 |
This film's painful story is one to which people from all corners of the globe can relate or at least understand. Full Review |
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A film that gives you the illusion of eavesdropping on life as it's actually lived, on people as they actually behave. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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. Full Review |
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It is a minor effort, satisfying only on its own limited terms. Full Review |
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3/4 |
One of the better examples of the minimalist cinema popular with Iranian filmmakers Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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2/4 |
Agonizingly slow-moving and talky, it consists primarily of conversations between two men in a truck. Full Review |
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Perhaps the strangest and most rewarding romance you'll see all year. Full Review |
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This gentle and somewhat slow moving romantic fable has a quiet sweetness all its own. Full Review |
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Has a keen sense of the pace of everyday life. Full Review |
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4/5 |
An investigation, at once lucid and enigmatic, of exile, loneliness and the fragile possibility of friendship. Full Review |
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[S]hows such a painterly eye for framing and composition that the story is almost superfluous to the glory of its pictures. Full Review |
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Among the most formally accomplished of new Iranian films. Full Review |
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