I'm sad to say that no one else I know saw this film, despite my strong encouragement to do so. Maybe it appeals to the former teacher in me...the whole idea of teachers carrying blackboards on their backs through the rocky war-ridden Iran-Irak border in search of pupils really got me. A simple story that blows you away with its beauty. I've been wanting to go to Iran for some time now, and film making like this only strengthens my desire.
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Striking film
frankroehl1 January 2009
This is a very strong film. A very strange one as well. And probably a very true one. Sometimes it is very difficult to stand it, especially the live of the just married couple.
Images and tales from a world far away, but striking, powerful and easy to decrypt. Our hero teacher and these people just trying to survive seem so far from the world we are living in, but that is what life is really like in poor areas.
A film impossible to categorize, impossible to love, but really worth of giving it a try - a true masterpiece. Humanity with all the best and the worse it can offer.
Images and tales from a world far away, but striking, powerful and easy to decrypt. Our hero teacher and these people just trying to survive seem so far from the world we are living in, but that is what life is really like in poor areas.
A film impossible to categorize, impossible to love, but really worth of giving it a try - a true masterpiece. Humanity with all the best and the worse it can offer.
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