Safar e Ghandehar
Directed by:
Mohsen MakhmalbafScreenplay:
Mohsen MakhmalbafCinematography:
Ebrahim GhaforiComposer:
Mohammad Reza DarvishiPlots(1)
Mohsen Makhmalbaf's extraordinary fable of love, suffering and self-sacrifice is the story of Nafas. A young Afghan refugee living in Canada, she receives a desperate letter from her younger sister, who writes that she will kill herself at the moment of the next solar eclipse. Nafas fled Afghanistan during the civil war with her father, a doctor. Her sister, terribly injured by a land mine, was too ill to travel with them, and remained behind, in Kandahar. With great difficulty, Nafas manages to reach Iran, where she seeks help. Heavily veiled, disguised as a peasant, she is led across war-ravaged, mine-strewn wastelands by a boy she encounters in a cemetery. To save her sister, whatever the cost, she must brave sickness, ruthless bandits and border guards if she is to reach the town of her birth before the eclipse... (Wild Bunch Distribution)
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The view of life in some areas, even in comparison to the already Western mentality, also applies to the main character. He's returning to somewhere he no longer knows, somewhere with customs that seem strange compared to what works in the West. As an insight into the area, it's definitely good, not least because not much has changed.
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