Turtles Can Fly (2005)
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Reviews Counted: 68 Fresh: 61 Rotten:7 Average Rating: 7.8/10
Consensus:
Set in Iraq after the fall of Saddam, Turtles Can Fly is being hailed as extraordinary, moving, and lyrical.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Theatrical Release: Feb 18, 2005 Limited
Box Office: $213,047
Synopsis: "Turtles Can Fly" is the third feature from internationally acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Bahman Ghobadi ("A Time For Drunken Horses"). Written, directed and produced by Ghobadi, the film features of cast of local non-actor children. "Turtles Can Fly" is set in Ghobadi’s native... [More]
Genre: Dramas
Starring: Soran Ebrahim, Avaz Latif, Hirsh Feyssal
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Screenwriter: Bahman Ghobadi
Producer: Bahman Ghobadi
Composer: Houssein Alizadeh
Screenwriter: Bahman Ghobadi
Producer: Bahman Ghobadi
Composer: Houssein Alizadeh
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It's a political work, but Ghobadi's film is more in search of the common experience of humanity.
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12/06/06
Una película conmovedora, sugestiva y poética, donde gran parte de la convicción proviene de sus increíbles actores no profesionales.
04/21/06
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02/09/06
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Intends to let the world know something about the Kurdish people and their suffering.
11/19/05
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09/26/05
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Despite its fanciful title, Turtles Can Fly leads viewers into a slough of despond, one in which not just hope is strangled but virtually any possibility for simple human kindness.
09/26/05
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Bahman Ghobadi works best on pain and suffering; he’s passionate about filming his people (Kurds) from the inside of the society, with the focus on their miseries
08/30/05
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08/19/05
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Turtles Can Fly is humane, funny, and visually acute, but it never shies away from the ugliness that mars these innocent lives.
08/04/05
Riveting, depressing and eye-opening, Turtles Can Fly is a movie about an Iraq that the news hasn't shown us.
06/24/05
Turtles Can Fly is the first feature shot in Iraq after the fall of Hussein, and writer/director Ghobadi, an Iranian, melds grimly authentic settings with a peculiar type of magic realism.
06/24/05
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We realize how pitiful the situation is, how hopeless and desperate life has become for these people. No matter what we thought about Iraq, we see things a little differently.
05/26/05
A welcome, even essential adjustment to the images of Iraq seen in daily news reports.
05/20/05
Director Bahman Ghobadi takes us into the day-to-day despair of youngsters pinned down by war and poverty.
05/13/05
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