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Young Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.Young Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.Young Iranian Kurdish siblings try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.
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- TriviaThe first feature film in Kurdish, a language which was banned in Iranian schools since the 1940s, to achieve an international release.
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As can be determined by the almost unbelievably coarse
and heartless "reviews" of A TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES seen here on the IMDB's "external reviews," the
Shooting Gallery had quite a task on their hands in selling
Americans on an Iranian film about a Kurdish brother and
sister smuggling contraband on mules to pay for their crippled sibling's life-saving operation. The tony, elderly
Westwood audience I saw HORSES with seemed put out that such an unpleasant experience interrupted their usual
flow of Landmark Cinema Cultural Time-Outs; those with
stronger constitutions will be offered as compensation
images that will stay seared in your heart for the rest of your
life.
A scene in the snow, in which an extended family decides
the fate of the dwarfish younger brother, has an operatic
severity that suggests a closer approximation of the dramatic quality of the Old Testament than any movie based on the Bible. The ending is so amazingly courageous one cannot imagine a brace of dentist-investors, much less an American studio, standing
for its effrontery.
The Iranian cinema is not just reinventing the experience of
movies; it is rediscovering the moral dimension of telling
stories.
and heartless "reviews" of A TIME FOR DRUNKEN HORSES seen here on the IMDB's "external reviews," the
Shooting Gallery had quite a task on their hands in selling
Americans on an Iranian film about a Kurdish brother and
sister smuggling contraband on mules to pay for their crippled sibling's life-saving operation. The tony, elderly
Westwood audience I saw HORSES with seemed put out that such an unpleasant experience interrupted their usual
flow of Landmark Cinema Cultural Time-Outs; those with
stronger constitutions will be offered as compensation
images that will stay seared in your heart for the rest of your
life.
A scene in the snow, in which an extended family decides
the fate of the dwarfish younger brother, has an operatic
severity that suggests a closer approximation of the dramatic quality of the Old Testament than any movie based on the Bible. The ending is so amazingly courageous one cannot imagine a brace of dentist-investors, much less an American studio, standing
for its effrontery.
The Iranian cinema is not just reinventing the experience of
movies; it is rediscovering the moral dimension of telling
stories.
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- Also known as
- Intoxication for Horses
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Box office
- Gross US & Canada
- $587,654
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $42,188
- Oct 29, 2000
- Gross worldwide
- $632,310
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By what name was A Time for Drunken Horses (2000) officially released in India in English?
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