Gabbeh (1996)
Country: IR/FR
Technical: col 74m
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Cast: Abbas Sayahi, Shaghayegh Djodat, Hossein Moharami, Rogheih Moharami
Synopsis:
As an ageing couple wash their carpet at a brook, the spirit of the carpet recounts her woeful complaint: eager for marriage but obliged to wait by her father, she eventually elopes with her suitor whereupon the father shoots them both.
Review:
The eponymous carpet is far more than an ordinary rug: much of the film depicts the painstaking manufacture by the women of these symbols of permanence in a nomadic existence. The importance of colour, representing life, and the design detail of the lovers on horseback become more insistent as the girl's patience is prolonged. It is a beautifully realised piece of cinema and an absorbing ethnic text.
Country: IR/FR
Technical: col 74m
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Cast: Abbas Sayahi, Shaghayegh Djodat, Hossein Moharami, Rogheih Moharami
Synopsis:
As an ageing couple wash their carpet at a brook, the spirit of the carpet recounts her woeful complaint: eager for marriage but obliged to wait by her father, she eventually elopes with her suitor whereupon the father shoots them both.
Review:
The eponymous carpet is far more than an ordinary rug: much of the film depicts the painstaking manufacture by the women of these symbols of permanence in a nomadic existence. The importance of colour, representing life, and the design detail of the lovers on horseback become more insistent as the girl's patience is prolonged. It is a beautifully realised piece of cinema and an absorbing ethnic text.
Country: IR/FR
Technical: col 74m
Director: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Cast: Abbas Sayahi, Shaghayegh Djodat, Hossein Moharami, Rogheih Moharami
Synopsis:
As an ageing couple wash their carpet at a brook, the spirit of the carpet recounts her woeful complaint: eager for marriage but obliged to wait by her father, she eventually elopes with her suitor whereupon the father shoots them both.
Review:
The eponymous carpet is far more than an ordinary rug: much of the film depicts the painstaking manufacture by the women of these symbols of permanence in a nomadic existence. The importance of colour, representing life, and the design detail of the lovers on horseback become more insistent as the girl's patience is prolonged. It is a beautifully realised piece of cinema and an absorbing ethnic text.