The Colour Of Paradise Details

In this follow-up to his Oscar-nominated delight The Children of Heaven, Majid Majidi combines a fairy-tale atmosphere with sensual imagery to produce a gentle parable about the dangers of social ambition and spiritual hypocrisy. There's a Kikujiro feel to the relationship between miner Hossein Mahjub and his eight-year-old son, Mohsen Ramezani, as the rascally widower comes to reappraise his priorities after a prestigious betrothal falls through. But leaving a deeper impression is Majidi's depiction of the blind boy's sensitivity to both his family (particularly his beloved grandmother) and the natural world around him. It's simple but cinematic, moving yet inspiring, witty and subtly wise.

A simple and sometimes affecting drama of a boy who overcomes his disabilities and an adult who is blind to his own faults.