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The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)

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Critic Reviews: 4
Fresh: 4 | Rotten: 0

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This idiosyncratic drama from Iran begins as a jeep winds through the hills of Kurdistan, containing an engineer (Behzad Dourani) and his two assistants (whom we never see) as they search for a small village in the mountains. When they arrive, they are greeted by a young boy, who shows them a place they can stay and guides the engineer to the home of an old woman (also never seen) who seems to be dying. No one is sure what the engineer and his men are doing there; some locals think he's keeping

Unrated,

Art House & International, Drama

Abbas Kiarostami

Sep 17, 2002

New Yorker Films

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All Critics (41) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (24) | Rotten (1) | DVD (6)

Kiarostami could have just made a documentary, and it would have been fascinating. But his narrative is a way of humbly questioning his own ethics and methods.

May 18, 2010 Full Review Source: Looking Closer
Looking Closer

In nothing else do all of [Kiarostami's] concerns come together in such a satisfying, complete whole.

December 22, 2008 Full Review Source: Antagony & Ecstasy
Antagony & Ecstasy

One of the 90s' great films.

July 29, 2004

slowly spellbinding

December 1, 2003
Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

If you're the sort of person who just adores extremely slow-moving foreign films with a dearth of actual plot, go for it, but the rest of you have been warned.

November 28, 2003 | Comment (1)
New Times

I remain a devoté of Kiarostami's style, but Wind feels more arid and extended than most of his pictures.

August 15, 2003
Nick's Flick Picks

Hypnotic!

October 29, 2002 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A mesmerizing Iranian film that keeps reminding us that the mysteries of life and death cannot be manipulated or controlled.

March 16, 2002 Full Review Source: Spirituality and Practice | Comment (1)
Spirituality and Practice

By leaving gaps in the story, and allowing us to fill them in, Kiarostami gives new life to the art form, but more importantly, he becomes the vortex for the stories we tell.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Film Journal International
Film Journal International

Abbas Kiarostami's films have a knack for taking us away to a clearer, more vivid place, allowing us to breathe for what seems like the first time in years. He has done that once again, and better than ever before, with his newest film.

January 1, 2000 Full Review Source: Combustible Celluloid
Combustible Celluloid

Audience Reviews for The Wind Will Carry Us

Kiarostami, prova mais uma vez o seu grande talento num dos maiores cinemas do mundo: o cinema do Ira.
May 5, 2011
Lucas Martins

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To say that Abbas Kiarostami's The Wind Will Carry Us has an actual plot is a lie. This is a film about nothing. It starts with a engineer and his assistants arriving to a small remote village and when it comes to an end we have actually learned or experienced nothing more than a two hours of slow-moving boredom. I am not saying that to make a film you need necessarily a plot, but here it would truly help. The characters are all there and the village is interesting enough to serve us nice backdrop for a story, but the story never comes and the film really never begins. All we see is these characters repeating the same routines over and over again. There is no traces of hypnotic atmosphere. It is mostly just mind numbing to sit through. And i don't find all that philosophical dialogue about life, religion ans such that intellectual as it is meant to be. So what makes people admire films like this? Is it the directors name, or is the fact that it is called art-film? I simply am left confused with that question. Kiarostami is extremely gifted director but it just does not show here.
November 25, 2011
emilkakko

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