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“Rarely has gritty naturalism and visual poetry been married so stirringly as in
Half Moon.” |
 Half Moon
Half Moon (Niwemang)Directed by Bahman GhobadiCast: Ismail Ghaffari, Allah Morad Rashtiani, Hedye Tehrani, Hassan Poorshirazi, Golshifteh Farahani, Sadiq Behzadpoor(114 min) Iran/Iraq/Austria/France A famous Kurdish musician wants to return to Kurdish Iraq after the fall of
Saddam Hussein. He gets in a rattling school bus along with his sons and makes a
trip to Iraq. This is a very unusual road film unlike any that you probably
will ever see. This director, also, did Turtles Can Fly and A Time for Drunken
Horses. Italian neo-realism is dead, but its memory is still alive in the films
of Iran. |