Average Rating: 8.7/10
Reviews Counted: 7
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 0
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Release Date: Apr 26, 1996 Wide
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The thin distinction between fiction and reality comes in for some blurring in this fact-based near-documentary. Learning of a major earthquake, the director of a children's movie, Where Is My Friend's Home?, is worried about two of his performers in that film. He sets out with his son to interview the survivors and learn the fate of his two acquaintances. However, he hires locals to play himself and his son and hires local earthquake survivors to play other earthquake survivors. When his
Apr 26, 1996 Wide
Sep 25, 1996
Mongrel Media
All Critics (13) | Top Critics (2) | Fresh (7) | Rotten (0)
An amazing film that never fails to hold your interest.
If one thing is evident, it's that Kiarostami enjoys blurring the line between real life and fiction.
So natural are Kiarostami's non-professional actors, that the line between fiction and non-fiction is continually blurred.
The responsibility that Kiarostami feels toward truth combined with the genuine compassion that he displays toward his "characters" makes the film profoundly humanistic.
A melancholy yet optimistic look at the aftermath of Iran's devastating 1990 earthquake. The acting is so naturalistic it almost lends the film a documentary air, and the director masterfully uses the fractured Iranian landscape as a silent narrator.
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