The only way Amir (Hamid Reza Abbasi) and Narges (Sadaf Asgari) can spend time together is in their secret, open ‘living room' in a never finished luxury hotel overlooking one of the long, sandy beaches of the Caspian Sea in North Iran. The concrete shell, long time abandoned by its makers, serves as their zone of comfort, where they dream about a bright future together. The problem is that Amir comes from a poor, working class family and Narges is a daughter of wealthy, influential parents who want to secure her future by finding an ideal suitor who won't have trouble paying a sky-rocket high dowry.
The film kicks off with a scene in which the lovebirds spend time on a completely desolated beach, but although there is no one to be seen, Narges refuses to join her boyfriend for a swim. In his boyish desire to impress, he will...
The film kicks off with a scene in which the lovebirds spend time on a completely desolated beach, but although there is no one to be seen, Narges refuses to join her boyfriend for a swim. In his boyish desire to impress, he will...
- 7/6/2023
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
The 57th edition of Karlovy Vary International film festival has a number of focuses and one special titled “Another Birth. Iranian Cinema Here and Now”, but Behrooz Karamizade's debut feature “Empty Nets” was selected to compete for The Crystal Globe. This muliti-layered drama is set on the northern Caspian Sea coast, and stars the brilliant Sadaf Asgai as Narges (recently seen in Ali Asgari & Alireza Khatami's Un Certain Regard contender “Terrestrial Verses”) and the charismatic Hamid Reza-Abbasi as Amir.
Karamizade's script revolves around a young man from a working class family whose wish to propose to his big love becomes sabotaged by a number of impediments. Narges comes from a wealthy, influential family with high expectations of a future son-in-law. He should be successfull, respected and cultured, none of which the simple and good-hearted Amir is. At the beginning, the young couple's encounters are unburdened by class differences,...
Karamizade's script revolves around a young man from a working class family whose wish to propose to his big love becomes sabotaged by a number of impediments. Narges comes from a wealthy, influential family with high expectations of a future son-in-law. He should be successfull, respected and cultured, none of which the simple and good-hearted Amir is. At the beginning, the young couple's encounters are unburdened by class differences,...
- 7/5/2023
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
You know the modern world is in a dark place when even a middle-aged Iranian woman says that things were better in the old days. Indeed, for his feature debut, director Behrooz Karamizade has fashioned an intelligent and thoughtful drama that should travel well in today’s climate of insecurity, offering a fresh perspective on a multiplicity of worldwide issues while adding an especially nuanced subplot exploring the refugee crisis and the mechanics of people-trafficking.
The setting is rural Iran, on the coast of the Caspian Sea, where twentysomething Amir (Hamid Reza Abbasi) is struggling to make ends meet. Amir is in love with Narges (Sadaf Asgari) and wants to marry her, but Narges comes from a traditional family who think Amir is beneath her and plan to marry their daughter to the highest bidder. After a date at the funfair, where she narrowly dodges a relative,...
The setting is rural Iran, on the coast of the Caspian Sea, where twentysomething Amir (Hamid Reza Abbasi) is struggling to make ends meet. Amir is in love with Narges (Sadaf Asgari) and wants to marry her, but Narges comes from a traditional family who think Amir is beneath her and plan to marry their daughter to the highest bidder. After a date at the funfair, where she narrowly dodges a relative,...
- 7/3/2023
- by Damon Wise
- Deadline Film + TV
Baran Kosari with Behzad Dorani, left, and Babak Karimi in The Wastetown. Ahmad Bahrami: 'The personal reason that I've worked on these types of topics is that I want to show this brutal situation so that others see what is happening and how to avoid it in the future' Photo: Courtesy of Poff Iranian director Ahmad Bahrami’s continues bleak consideration of his homeland with The Wastetown[film] - the second part of an intended trilogy after his Venice Horizons-winning [film]The Wasteland. Set against the backdrop of a car breakers yard, it sees Bemani (Baran Kosari), who has been temporarily released from jail after 10 years, attempting to find out the whereabouts of the son she was forced to give up in prison.
The film co-stars Ali Bagheri as Bemani’s brother-in-law, who previously also starred in The Wasteland, Babak Karimi and Behzad Dorani. A tense drama that, like many of the films of Bela Tarr,...
The film co-stars Ali Bagheri as Bemani’s brother-in-law, who previously also starred in The Wasteland, Babak Karimi and Behzad Dorani. A tense drama that, like many of the films of Bela Tarr,...
- 1/12/2023
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
While international critics and cinephiles alike were celebrating features such “Close-Up” and “The Taste of Cherry”, making a movie in his home country became increasingly difficult for director Abbas Kiarostami. Luckily, he would find financial backing in countries such as France, which was also the case for his 1999 feature “The Wind Will Carry Us”, whose title refers to a poem by Iranian author Farough Forrochzad, an artist Kiarostami cherished a lot, considering one of the main characters in the movie recites the poet’s work on various occasions. “The Wind Will Carry Us” manifested its director’s reputation internationally, winning the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the Fipresci Prize and various other awards, with many people calling it one of Kiarostami’s best works.
In order to document a rare burial ceremony, four men from Tehran travel all the way to the remote village of Siah Dareh,...
In order to document a rare burial ceremony, four men from Tehran travel all the way to the remote village of Siah Dareh,...
- 8/3/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Amongst Abbas Kiarostami’s most critically acclaimed works is his end-of-the-millennium release “The Wind Will Carry Us”. A contemplative piece on existence, it garnered significant festival coverage and awards, including triple glory at Venice, with the Grand Special Jury Prize, the Fipresci Prize and the CinemAvvenire Award.
Four journalists, Keyvan, Ali, Jahan, and Behzad, reach a Kurdish village in Iran. They are not letting their real profession out though, as they pose as production engineers. The real reason of their visit is to record a unique ceremony and report it back to their office at Tehran. Their focus in upon the locals’ mourning rituals that anticipate the death of old people, in this specific case, that of an extremely old woman, probably a centurion and then some. As she refuses to eat food and cannot manage to speak to anyone, the four journalists live idly, awaiting her death.
Four journalists, Keyvan, Ali, Jahan, and Behzad, reach a Kurdish village in Iran. They are not letting their real profession out though, as they pose as production engineers. The real reason of their visit is to record a unique ceremony and report it back to their office at Tehran. Their focus in upon the locals’ mourning rituals that anticipate the death of old people, in this specific case, that of an extremely old woman, probably a centurion and then some. As she refuses to eat food and cannot manage to speak to anyone, the four journalists live idly, awaiting her death.
- 12/18/2020
- by Raktim Nandi
- AsianMoviePulse
The Wind Will Carry Us
Written and directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Iran 1999
To say that Abbas Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us is an unhurried film would be quite the understatement. This deliberately crafted and contemplative work, one of the great Iranian director’s finest films, moves at the pace of life. Not life as in the hustle and bustle or stolid banality of one’s everyday experiences, but life as in the gradual evolution of humankind’s basic existence. Reflecting the lives of those who inhabit the rural Kurdish village that serves as the film’s setting, The Wind Will Carry Us unfolds slowly and episodically, with its drama, or lack thereof, coming and going at a capricious moment’s notice.
Kiarostami begins the film as we follow a car driven by disembodied voices that bicker about directions and banter about the countryside. They drive and drive, along winding roads,...
Written and directed by Abbas Kiarostami
Iran 1999
To say that Abbas Kiarostami’s The Wind Will Carry Us is an unhurried film would be quite the understatement. This deliberately crafted and contemplative work, one of the great Iranian director’s finest films, moves at the pace of life. Not life as in the hustle and bustle or stolid banality of one’s everyday experiences, but life as in the gradual evolution of humankind’s basic existence. Reflecting the lives of those who inhabit the rural Kurdish village that serves as the film’s setting, The Wind Will Carry Us unfolds slowly and episodically, with its drama, or lack thereof, coming and going at a capricious moment’s notice.
Kiarostami begins the film as we follow a car driven by disembodied voices that bicker about directions and banter about the countryside. They drive and drive, along winding roads,...
- 8/5/2014
- by Jeremy Carr
- SoundOnSight
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: July 22, 2014
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray $39.98
Studio: Cohen Media
The great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s (Certified Copy) acclaimed 1999 drama The Wind Will Carry Us arrives as a digitally remastered release on Blu-ray and DVD, an “acknowledgement” of the film’s 15th anniversary that marks its Blu-ray debut.
The Wind Will Carry Us film follows the changes in the daily routines of the inhabitants of a mountain village after a small group of outsiders arrives, claiming to be “communication engineers.” As the deceptive story unfolds, we learn that the mysterious strangers are on a secret mission: They are a television crew sent from Tehran to await the death of an old woman in order to cover the funeral practices of the village. But the village operates on its own schedule, forcing the TV crew to remain much longer than planned. The leader of the crew (Behzad Dorani) winds...
Price: DVD $29.98, Blu-ray $39.98
Studio: Cohen Media
The great Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami’s (Certified Copy) acclaimed 1999 drama The Wind Will Carry Us arrives as a digitally remastered release on Blu-ray and DVD, an “acknowledgement” of the film’s 15th anniversary that marks its Blu-ray debut.
The Wind Will Carry Us film follows the changes in the daily routines of the inhabitants of a mountain village after a small group of outsiders arrives, claiming to be “communication engineers.” As the deceptive story unfolds, we learn that the mysterious strangers are on a secret mission: They are a television crew sent from Tehran to await the death of an old woman in order to cover the funeral practices of the village. But the village operates on its own schedule, forcing the TV crew to remain much longer than planned. The leader of the crew (Behzad Dorani) winds...
- 7/14/2014
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
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