Impresses with its varied notes and clear understanding of the powerful entertainment value in a road picture spryly maneuvering across heavily mined terrain.
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06/06/03
Marooned in Iraq (2003)
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Reviews Counted:27
Fresh:25
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.6/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Foreign Films
Theatrical Release:Apr 25, 2003 Limited
Synopsis: A famous Iranian singer, Mizra (Shahab Ebrahimi), and his two sons partake in an epic journey across hazardous terrain in director Bahman Ghobadi's MAROONED IN IRAQ. Set in the aftermath of the... [More]
Starring: Shahab Ebrahimi, Iran Ghobadi, Faegh Mohamadi, Allah-Morad Rashtian
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
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Reviews for Marooned in Iraq
Eliciting affecting performances from his cast of nonprofessionals (all with fascinating faces), Ghobadi manages to balance the inhumanity with humanity.
05/03/03
Though Marooned in Iraq falls short of greatness, its timing couldn't be more brilliant.
05/02/03
Top CriticThe Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi made an impressive feature debut with the tragic tale of child smugglers A Time for Drunken Horses. Events in his second movie, Marooned in Iraq, are even more heart-rending.
05/23/03
The generalizations and speculations of the television anchors and commentators fade away in the face of a film like Bahman Ghobadi's Marooned in Iraq.
04/25/03
Top CriticThis peripatetic yarn is less resonant than Ghobadi's beautiful A Time for Drunken Horses, but it has enough energy to keep your eyes popping and your toes tapping.
04/24/03
A sorrowful road comedy set in a place where hardship and humor are brothers in arms.
09/18/03
Less shrill than Samira Makhmalbaf’s Blackboards, Bahman Ghobadi’s latest is also less didactic.
04/07/03
No review available.
09/12/05
Here is an immensely touching and compassionate film about the harassed and persecuted Kurdish people fleeing from Iraq towards the Iranian border; it will open your eyes and your heart as well.
05/01/03
It puts a face and name to people and events we hear about nightly on CNN.
06/05/03
Top CriticA road-and-buddy movie, Kurdish style, that effectively illustrates the damage Saddam Hussein did against Kurdish villages.
04/17/03
Moving from the harsh reportage of his first feature, A Time for Drunken Horses, Kurdish filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi looks at life through the all-seeing but forgiving lens of comedy.
05/22/03
This lusty, heartfelt movie has a near Brueghelian visual energy and a humanist passion as contagious as its music.
04/22/03
Top CriticGhobadi does a professional job of melding these disparate parts together, carefully using the hard, scraggly Kurdistan landscape and the overhead sounds of war as tie-ins.
06/06/03
Ghobadi's witty dialogue successfully balances pathos and humor in palatable fashion
11/05/03
Often very funny and poignant.
04/25/03
Top CriticIt's a movie that works on many levels, including symbolic and metaphorical.
06/06/03
On a miniscule budget, Ghobadi conveys the terror of war, while the beautifully edited sequence in which Iranian villagers make bricks resembles nothing so much as a choreographed dance number.
04/25/03
Even though the film's tone grows ever more elegiac, it stubbornly remains a celebration of the Kurdish capacity to endure.
05/22/03
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