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Consensus: Bahman Ghobadi’s Half Moon is a beautiful and often humorous look into the lives of Kurdish wanderers.
Theatrical Release:Dec 14, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: HALF MOON is the moving and beautiful new film from Kurdish director Ghobadi (A Time for Drunken Horses, Turtles Can Fly). Mamo, an iconic Kurdish musician in the twilight of his life and failing... [More]
Starring: Ismail Ghaffari, Allah Morad Rashtiani, Hedye Tehrani, Hassan Poorshirazi
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Writer-director Bahman Ghobadi's picturesque road trip is less about preserving a musical heritage than accepting one's fate, a mythic trek that's both heartrending and boisterous -- often as hauntingly absurdist as a Kusturica carnival.
Director Bahman Ghobadi ices his dark parable with a light frosting of humanistic humor.
There’s something Styxian about the road travelled here that’s reinforced with imagery of death that elevates Ghobadi’s tale above the everyday.
An unflinching and affecting depiction of the region’s tragic lunacies.
The film, equipped with a sense of humour as well as a certain kind of Middle Eastern magic realism, has a central theme that emphasises the fate of a whole people without a country to call their own.
Balancing earthy humor and scarring tragedy, Bahman Ghobadi's portraits of Kurdish wanderers are particularly expressive of Iranian cinema's sense of hope within instability.
Opens our hearts and minds to the special place musicians play in the Kurdish culture and the ways in which they celebrate the human spirit.
a fascinating portrait of an underrepresented people, rich in humor, pathos and possible permutations
For his poetic fourth feature, Half Moon, Bahman Ghobadi returns to the desolation of the Kurdish borderlands and the enduring optimism of his people.
Top CriticThis is a road movie unlike any other...
Top CriticAnother magical mystery tour of Kurdistan from the amazing Bahman Ghobadi.
Top CriticWhile perhaps overlong, it has some good laughs (what exactly are "woman-sniffing dogs"?) and moments of odd beauty
Death may come with the half moon, but there remains a promise of rebirth%u2014the full moon, which illuminates even the desperate landscape of Kurdistan.
Surprisingly gripping despite its whimsical subject matter and often very funny.
I am a little unsure that the themes, images and ideas in all this come together as satisfactorily as they should, but it is a serious and worthwhile piece of work from a director with a real cinematic language.
Part quirky road-movie, part mythic fantasia, part rhapsodic celebration – and wholly captivating.
Illuminating, surreal, tear-jerking and funny, Half Moon is an unforgettable voyage into a land little seen.
...a moving road movie that culminates in a dramatic, music-saturated finale.
Death blurs the frontier between reality and dream, though never dimming the pic's startling beauty, raucous humor or indomitable ethos.
Stylish, but never quite substantial enough, Half Moon never lives up to its stunning opening sequence.
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