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The Wind Will Carry Us slowly casts its transporting spell as writer-director Abbas Kiarostami explores ineffable themes with patience and grace. Read critic reviews

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A group of people from the city arrive in a little village with a different kind of mission. They pretend to be communications engineers, but they are waiting the death of woman who is over 100. The leader of the group and a young boy from the village become friends. It also explores cultural differences between a man from the city and from a village.

Cast & Crew

Behzad Dourani
Engineer
Abbas Kiarostami
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Writer
Marin Karmitz
Producer
Abbas Kiarostami
Producer
Peyman Yazdanian
Original Music
Mahmoud Kalari
Cinematographer
Abbas Kiarostami
Film Editor
Nasrin Askari
Assistant Director
Bahman Ghobadi
Assistant Director
Jahangir Mirshekari
Sound
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Critic Reviews for The Wind Will Carry Us

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Audience Reviews for The Wind Will Carry Us

  • Apr 13, 2017
    The film is light, funny and very amusing in the way it shows the prosaic everyday life of common people as witnessed by an idle and increasingly impatient man visiting a Kurdish little village in Iran, even if the poignant result ranks among one of Kiarostami's minor works.
    Carlos M Super Reviewer
  • Jan 25, 2013
    <i>In my small night, ah, the wind has a date with the leaves of the trees. In my small night there is agony of destruction. Listen! Do you hear the darkness blowing? I look upon this bliss as a stranger. I am addicted to my despair. Listen! Do you hear the darkness blowing? Something is passing in the night. The moon is restless and red. And over this rooftop where crumbling is a constant fear, clouds, like a procession of mourners, seem to be waiting for the moment of rain, a moment, and then nothing. Night shudders beyond this window and the earth winds to a halt. Beyond this window, something unknown is watching you and me. O green from head to foot, place your hands like a burning memory in my loving hands, give your lips to the caresses of my loving lips, like the warm perception of being. The wind will carry us The wind will carry us.</i> -Forough Farrokhzad- 97/100
    Edgar C Super Reviewer
  • Jan 14, 2013
    Another great Kiarostami visual that is brought all the more home by the wonderful glimpse of a funeeral in rural Iran. Another masterpiece from a master.
    John B Super Reviewer
  • May 05, 2011
    Kiarostami, prova mais uma vez o seu grande talento num dos maiores cinemas do mundo: o cinema do Ira.
    Lucas M Super Reviewer
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