Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 28 | Rotten: 5
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Average Rating: 8.2/10
Critic Reviews: 8
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 0
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When the youngest boy of a destitute Iranian Kurdish family suffers from a terminal illness, his young siblings struggle to pay for a life-saving operation. In desperation, the eldest sister agrees to marry an Iraqi man, willing to care for the brother. At the border exchange, however, the family of the Iraqi man rejects the sick boy, leaving the siblings in a harrowing race against time.
Oct 27, 2000 Limited
Feb 15, 2011
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All Critics (55) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (5) | DVD (3)
... a hard yet visually beautiful portrait of grueling third world lives under the desperation of poverty and the terror of war.
A powerful first film from Iranian writer/director Bahman Ghobadi.
Dull drama from Iran.
The abuse of animals, and children in this film is just terrible. I'm not even sure what the heck I was supposed to understand by the ending.
September 20, 2011Super Reviewer
This is one more powerful and deeply affecting films coming from Iran. Using non-professional actors from the region, Ghobadi is able to lay bare the devastating hardships of life in Kurdistan on the Iran-Iraq border. The children are what make this film, though. In particular, Madi, the handicapped brother, has an
May 3, 2009
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