Iran/France
Feature Film | Comedy-Drama | language | Persian
Original Title: باد ما را خواهد برد | aka: Bad ma ra khahad bord
Dir: Abbas Kiarostami | Scr: Abbas Kiarostami | Idea: Mahmoud Aydin | Poem: Forough Farrokhzad | Ph: Mahmoud Kalari | Prod: Marin Karmitz & Abbas Kiarostami | Mus: Peyman Yazdanian | Ed: Abbas Kiarostami | SD: Mohammad Reza Delpak
Cast: Behzad Dorani, Farzad Sohrabi, Shahpour Ghobadi, Masood Mansouri, Masoameh Salimi
A Tehranian photo-journalist, masquerading as a telephone engineer, travels to a remote hillside village to document an ancient funereal ritual, but finds his underhanded methods frustrated by both the old woman’s inconvenient reluctance to die and the unbounding hospitality of the locals, in Kiarostami’s wittily thought-provoking and humanity-drenched culture clash comedy-drama. A strong central performance and a thoughtful script, presented with the Iranian auteur’s trademark formal audacity against a wonderful backdrop, combine to delightfully lyrical effect. Essential Viewing
