The Wind Will Carry Us Reviews

Pointless + very boring.

I am very keen on foreign arthouse films. But this was extremely boring. The whole film seemed to be based around a man trying to get reception for his mobile phone in the countryside! The scenery was quite stunning though. But the storyline was way over my head!

Treason

What hacked me off as an Iranian person is that Mr Abbas Kiarostami (director) has a knack for finding some remote, under privileged, old villages and he does what he does best, pointing out all the miseries and dark cultural facts in his movies, hoping that french festivals would take pity on him and send him home with a poxy reward.

In his films he sends out a negative message and a wrong image about Iran and it's rich culture to the world and unfortunately a lot of reviewers tend to believe what they see on the box.

I am not going to stop anyone from watching this movie but please bear in mind that what you see is not what is really happening in Iran.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Waiting for Mrs Godarzi

This rather beautiful film is confident enough not to feel it necessary to labour the plot. However, in essence, a group of possibly journalists have travelled to a Kurdish village in Iran. They wish to photograph an impending funeral of a 100 year old woman who seems likely to die. The funeral rites will be conducted by the women, and involve some painful self-mutilation to garner forgiveness for past wrongs. The lead journalist becomes drawn into the minutiae of life in the village, while having to answer frequent mobile calls from a Mrs Godarzi, presumably his editor, by driving a mile to a hilltop by the local cemetery in order to get a clear signal. Waiting for the woman to die is like Waiting for Godot. But the pacing, acting, direction and camera work is beautiful and keep one engaged. Beautiful.

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What was all this film about. Reminded me a bit of 'Groundhog Day' at some points! Strange film but watched it until the end anyway.

the wind will carry us

Not sure how this film ever got any stars, I agree with the other two reviewers. It may have lost something in translation, but never did quite work out what was happening, the acting was wooden, and the trip to the cemetery was repetitious (? the same piece of film). it could have been so subtle as to be lost on me. A pity as it could have been an interesting take on Iran.