Khaneh siah ast
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A raw, poetic excursion by Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzad into a leper colony. Unembellished images of physical deformity, accompanied by an encyclopaedic list of facts about the illness, contrast sharply with the filmmaker’s sensitive poems in search of the limits of human suffering. A bitter ballad about the will to live and the beauty of life under all circumstances.
“Will you tell me something ugly that you know?”, the teacher asks the leprous children in her class. “Arm, leg… head…”, they answer without thinking twice, and laugh at themselves.
(Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)
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It is definitely interesting in terms of what the film actually depicts, besides being an Iranian film. It is cruel, it is disgusting, but at the same time, it is just a depiction of what truly exists, or at least existed. In that sense, it is good, as well as in how it managed to merge with the voiceovers, but still, it is a film that I won't desire to see twice.
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