The Wind Will Carry Us (1999)
(Bad ma ra khahad bord)
Country: IR/FR
Technical: col 118m
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: Behzad Dourani, Noghre Asadi
Synopsis:
An engineer and his associates drive 600 miles from Tehran to a small village in the north, where they wait. For the death of an ageing poetess? If so, why an engineer? The leader strikes up a fragile friendship with a young boy who is sitting his school exams, and every time his mobile phone rings he must ascend the hill in his 4x4 to get decent reception...
Review:
One clutches at straws to get the full import of this subtle film on one viewing alone. What it undeniably conveys is a clash of cultures between city and country, and a sense of transcendence. The final shot, the only one accompanied by music on the soundtrack, follows a bone as it is borne along by the current of an irrigation trench; perhaps it is implied that the engineer's reflex-like response to and dependence on the agencies of his cell phone and jeep make him as insignificant as this bone.
(Bad ma ra khahad bord)
Country: IR/FR
Technical: col 118m
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: Behzad Dourani, Noghre Asadi
Synopsis:
An engineer and his associates drive 600 miles from Tehran to a small village in the north, where they wait. For the death of an ageing poetess? If so, why an engineer? The leader strikes up a fragile friendship with a young boy who is sitting his school exams, and every time his mobile phone rings he must ascend the hill in his 4x4 to get decent reception...
Review:
One clutches at straws to get the full import of this subtle film on one viewing alone. What it undeniably conveys is a clash of cultures between city and country, and a sense of transcendence. The final shot, the only one accompanied by music on the soundtrack, follows a bone as it is borne along by the current of an irrigation trench; perhaps it is implied that the engineer's reflex-like response to and dependence on the agencies of his cell phone and jeep make him as insignificant as this bone.
(Bad ma ra khahad bord)
Country: IR/FR
Technical: col 118m
Director: Abbas Kiarostami
Cast: Behzad Dourani, Noghre Asadi
Synopsis:
An engineer and his associates drive 600 miles from Tehran to a small village in the north, where they wait. For the death of an ageing poetess? If so, why an engineer? The leader strikes up a fragile friendship with a young boy who is sitting his school exams, and every time his mobile phone rings he must ascend the hill in his 4x4 to get decent reception...
Review:
One clutches at straws to get the full import of this subtle film on one viewing alone. What it undeniably conveys is a clash of cultures between city and country, and a sense of transcendence. The final shot, the only one accompanied by music on the soundtrack, follows a bone as it is borne along by the current of an irrigation trench; perhaps it is implied that the engineer's reflex-like response to and dependence on the agencies of his cell phone and jeep make him as insignificant as this bone.