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The Wind Will Carry Us

Play trailer Poster for The Wind Will Carry Us Released Jul 28, 1999 1h 58m Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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A group of people from the city arrive in a little village with a different kind of mission. They pretend to be communications engineers, but they are waiting the death of woman who is over 100. The leader of the group and a young boy from the village become friends. It also explores cultural differences between a man from the city and from a village.
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The Wind Will Carry Us slowly casts its transporting spell as writer-director Abbas Kiarostami explores ineffable themes with patience and grace.

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Richard Brody New Yorker Kiarostami films the encounters and the landscapes with a patient, painterly tenderness, but his modest methods conceal vast political goals. Jan 15, 2018 Full Review Calum Marsh Village Voice This is a deeply, patiently observational film, and the details Kiarostami emphasizes ... seem somehow profound in their banality, a mystery of ineffable beauty. May 30, 2014 Full Review Marrit Ingman Austin Chronicle Rated: 3.5/5 Mar 10, 2003 Full Review Susan Sontag Artforum The best-known Iranian director has made another incomparable film. May 2, 2024 Full Review Yasser Medina Cinefilia A splendid, poetic film, with a naturalism that enchants my sensibilities at all times when it portrays, with great subtlety, the rural customs of a small Iranian town. [Full review in Spanish] Rated: 7/10 Nov 12, 2020 Full Review Louis Proyect rec.arts.movies.reviews Magical realism without the magic. Wonderment comes from rural people (and goats, chicken, and cattle) being themselves--caught in the moment by a director with an affinity for ordinary people. May 30, 2014 Full Review Read all reviews

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isla s This is a very contemplative and reflective/philosophical type film. There is some poignant dialogue and, of course, needless to say, its quite dialogue heavy. Its set in Iran and its quite a nonchalant film. I appreciate it as a thoughtful watch. I'm not sure there's much more to say about it but if your a fan of the director then I'd say its worth a watch, yes. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member strangely mesmerizing Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review William L Prolonged shots of vehicles winding around mountain roads? A young boy concerned about the textbook he's missing for a test the next day? I see you making self-references to the Koker Trilogy, Kiarostami! While others have certainly made very human films, I don't think any director has ever had a more consistently humane stance when it comes to filmmaking; while Kiarostami often injects a distinctly Iranian context into his work, his reliance on understated conversation, informal relationship-building and tendency to touch on universal aspects of human nature is endlessly rewarding. Yet he still doesn't have the same level of name recognition on an international scale, outside of circles of film buffs. We need a retrospective or showcase to bring the man's name out of the realm of academia and overpriced box sets and into the common rotation. Riddled with creativity and symbolism, The Wind Will Carry Us takes careful steps when depicting the outsider nature of Dorani's journalist, sent as an almost alien individual to document a lifestyle that he doesn't necessarily detest but certainly carries preconceptions as more rudimentary; his questions are awkward and probing, while characters he speaks with are often off-screen or have their faces covered by one means or another. Then, this dynamic gradually evolves as Dorani is pulled back and forth between his professional obligations (often represented by calls on a phone that he notably must leave the village and travel to a cemetery to use, and featuring the somewhat macabre responsibility of waiting for a woman to die) and the simpler, possibly more pure lifestyle represented by the village itself; eventually, an accident gives him the opportunity to do a kindness that goes against his own interest. And as he takes it (as "the wind carries him"), it becomes too difficult to hear what is said on his phone. Perhaps Close-Up is more engagingly philosophical, and the Koker Trilogy more comprehensive, but The Wind Will Carry Us stands on its own legs as a resoundingly beautiful, understated film. (5/5) Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/04/21 Full Review s r 1001 movies to see before you die. Kiostrani directs his own way that is special. He follows and observes to tell a different story contrasting a man from the city and a village. Fascinating cultural record. It was on youtube. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review chris k An observational, poetic film, that surely needs patient viewers. But once you're there, you're very much rewarded. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review raphael g I didn't get into it as much as I'd hoped. One of the last scenes, where he and the doctor discuss the afterlife as they ride on a motorcycle was spellbinding. Beautiful cinematography. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis A group of people from the city arrive in a little village with a different kind of mission. They pretend to be communications engineers, but they are waiting the death of woman who is over 100. The leader of the group and a young boy from the village become friends. It also explores cultural differences between a man from the city and from a village.
Director
Abbas Kiarostami
Producer
Marin Karmitz, Abbas Kiarostami
Screenwriter
Abbas Kiarostami
Distributor
New Yorker Films
Production Co
MK2 Productions
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Persian
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 28, 1999, Original
Release Date (Streaming)
Jul 22, 2014
Box Office (Gross USA)
$257.7K
Runtime
1h 58m
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