Gabbeh (1997)
Movie Info
Cast
as Gabbeh
as Old Man
as Old Woman
as Gabbeh
as Uncle
as Old Woman
as Uncle
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Critic Reviews for Gabbeh
All Critics (20) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (18) | Rotten (2) | DVD (2)
A work of shimmering beauty.
Visually enchanting.
Movies such as this work like meditation or music, to nudge us toward the important.
There is hardly a composition in the film that couldn't be extracted and framed.
Like its subject, Gabbeh is woven with art.
Makhmalbaf attempts to follow the carpet idea by making his film dreamily romantic and non-realistic. Events seem to leap around in time and space, much like a dream.
Audience Reviews for Gabbeh
It is an absorbing film, much like a surreal visual poem that couldn't be more cinematic in the way it is told, sustained exclusively on its editing (and the endless possibilities that it offers to a story like this, including beautiful match cuts) and a dazzling use of colors.
Super Reviewer
I have zero clue what happens in this, but I liked it somehow.
Super Reviewer
Loved it! A very compelling tale.
Super Reviewer
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