Cast : Behzad Dourani
1998 / drama / Iran / original title : BAD MA RA KHAHAD BORD / 118’ / Color / status : completed / Persian / long feature-film / French collections
A few people arrive from Tehran for a short stay at Siah Dareh, a village in Iranian Kurdistan. The locals do not know why they are there. The strangers wander around the former cemetery and let the villagers think that they are looking for treasure. They end up leaving without really giving the impression that they have found what they were looking for.
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Press
«Kiarostami films the encounters and the landscapes with a patient, painterly tenderness, but his modest methods conceal vast political goals.»
The New Yorker
«One of the masters of the modern cinema, the Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, combines a patient and loving attention to characters drawn from daily life and to their landscapes with a precise, canny, and fierce distillation of concrete phenomena into brilliant, vertiginous, and liberating abstractions.»
The New Yorker
«Stunningly lyrical and eloquent.»
The New York Times
«One of the most beautiful films in the world.»
The Independent
