The Patience Stone (2013)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 35 | Rotten: 7
It may prove frustratingly slow for some viewers, but more contemplative filmgoers will find themselves rewarded by The Patience Stone's quietly fierce storytelling, as well as a searing starring turn from Golshifteh Farahani.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 16 | Rotten: 3
It may prove frustratingly slow for some viewers, but more contemplative filmgoers will find themselves rewarded by The Patience Stone's quietly fierce storytelling, as well as a searing starring turn from Golshifteh Farahani.
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Author Atiq Rahimi's adapts his own bestselling novel about a Muslim woman whose paralyzed husband unconsciously assumes the role of a magical force, which shields her from the sorrows of life in her war-torn village. Her unnamed Middle Eastern country caught up in an insurrection, the loyal, thirtysomething wife faithfully sits watch over her vegetative husband, who has been all but forgotten by his brothers and fellow Jihadists. Over time, she gathers the courage to tell her husband all of the
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Golshifteh Farahani
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Hamidrez Javdan
The Man -
Hassina Burgan
The Aunt -
Massi Browat
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All Critics (42) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (7)
With a piercing edge, "The Patience Stone" is a cry from behind the veil, where a suffocating woman weaves a new life of her own design.
Top CriticThe bare room where the husband lies helpless becomes a confessional where Farahani pours out the woman's life story in a performance that grabs you with its quiet yet searing power.
A startling fantasy of Muslim feminist empowerment that allows the Iranian-born actress Golshifteh Farahani to put on what amounts to a one-woman show.
Some movies prove both immediately transformative - altering how we view the world as soon as we leave the theater - and long-lasting, demanding days or weeks of reflection.
[A] quietly fierce condemnation of fundamentalist Muslim society's treatment of women ...
The film burns with the collective anger of exiles, unfolding as an indictment of the Islamic customs and religious practices that oppress women in their native countries.
There isn't a false step from the quietly devastating Farahani; her tour-de-force performance carries the film through its rocky stretches.
Farahani carries the movie almost single-handedly, and her performance is remarkable.
Farahani's central performance radiates with authenticity.
Speaking of patience, it will try yours.
An intermittently powerful piece, driven by Farahani's nuanced performance, though eventually its verbosity takes a toll.
The details of the woman's life are like a crash course in the sociology of a country living through turmoil ...
"The Patience Stone" has a feminine viewpoint, yes, but it is also an indictment of a culture that would repress women's rights en total.
If Rahimi begins his film in a room so bare it resembles a cell, he ends it in the selfsame one like something out of 'Arabian Nights,' his oppressed wife rendered Sheherazade.
In a searing, provocative, and passionate performance, [Farahadi]performs a virtual monologue with such emotional precision that there is no need for the traditional call-and-response of dialogue driven films.
A genuine political psychodrama that makes its point with a sledgehammer.
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Foreign Titles
- Stein der Geduld (DE)
- The Patience Stone (UK)
It's almost a long monologue, but the pace, Golshifteh Farahani's beautiful face and the insight in a conservative culture make it an intriguing movie.