Kiarostami’s turn-of-the-millennium masterpiece arrives on a pristine-looking Blu-ray with an essential commentary track.
Bahman Ghobadi’s film is at its strongest when establishing the culture of an underground driven by a near fanatical devotion to music.
Like Jodie Foster, Dakota Fanning has been the real deal from the time she was a kid.
In Tehran, being in an indie rock band can be extremely dangerous.
Bahman Ghobadi’s portraits of Kurdish wanderers are particularly expressive of Iranian cinema’s sense of hope within instability.
The film captures the chaotic psychological turmoil of a beleaguered people mired in a hopeless cycle of dismemberment and death.
Less shrill than Samira Makhmalbaf’s Blackboards, Bahman Ghobadi’s latest is also less didactic.