Rent The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
3.6 of 5 from 123 ratings
1h 53min
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- Synopsis:
- Film documents the arrival of an engineer and his colleagues from Tehran in a remote village in Iranian Kurdistan. Assumed by the locals - with whom they form an ambivalent relationship - to be archaeologists or telecom engineers, the visitors' behaviour and keen interest in the health of an ailing old woman appear strange and their true motives are shrouded in mystery. Haunting and visually stunning, feature is an absorbing, abstract meditation on life and death and the divisions between tradition and modernity.
- Actors:
- Behzad Dorani, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam Elmi, Bahman Ghobadi, Shahpour Ghobadi, Reihan Heidari, Masood Mansouri, Ali Reza Naderi, Frangis Rahsepar, Masoameh Salimi, Farzad Sohrabi, Lida Soltani
- Directors:
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Producers:
- Marin Karmitz, Abbas Kiarostami
- Writers:
- Abbas Kiarostami
- Aka:
- Bad Ma Ra Khahad Bord
- Studio:
- Artificial Eye Film Company Ltd.
- Genres:
- Drama
- Collections:
- Top 10 Films By Year, Top 10 Films of 1999
- Countries:
- Iran
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Reviews (1) of The Wind Will Carry Us
Disappointing - The Wind Will Carry Us review by PM
This film had a great context; the Kurdish village and countryside were breathtakingly beautiful and unusual. But the storyline, although it had a "message", had no vitality and , for me personally, was stylistically unattractive. Presenting the inevitable conflict between maintaining tradition and embracing modernity, it was altogether too understated and left me feeling "Is that it then?"
3 stars for the beautiful photography
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