The White Balloon (1995)
(Badkonak-E Sefid)
Country: IR
Technical: col 84m
Director: Jafar Panahi
Cast: Aïda Mohammadkhani
Synopsis:
A little girl has her heart set on buying a fat goldfish for New Year's celebrations, and her mother relents and gives her some of her hard-earned money. But on the way to the pet shop all sorts of calamities can befall a banknote in a child's hands.
Review:
A neo-realist tale if ever there was one, and Panahi sketches in no end of sociological detail around the slenderest of plotlines, making this one of the films to bring Iranian cinema to the attention of the West.
(Badkonak-E Sefid)
Country: IR
Technical: col 84m
Director: Jafar Panahi
Cast: Aïda Mohammadkhani
Synopsis:
A little girl has her heart set on buying a fat goldfish for New Year's celebrations, and her mother relents and gives her some of her hard-earned money. But on the way to the pet shop all sorts of calamities can befall a banknote in a child's hands.
Review:
A neo-realist tale if ever there was one, and Panahi sketches in no end of sociological detail around the slenderest of plotlines, making this one of the films to bring Iranian cinema to the attention of the West.
(Badkonak-E Sefid)
Country: IR
Technical: col 84m
Director: Jafar Panahi
Cast: Aïda Mohammadkhani
Synopsis:
A little girl has her heart set on buying a fat goldfish for New Year's celebrations, and her mother relents and gives her some of her hard-earned money. But on the way to the pet shop all sorts of calamities can befall a banknote in a child's hands.
Review:
A neo-realist tale if ever there was one, and Panahi sketches in no end of sociological detail around the slenderest of plotlines, making this one of the films to bring Iranian cinema to the attention of the West.