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- Starring: Bahman Ghobadi, Behnaz Jafari, Said Mohamadi
- Summary: A group of male teachers crosses the mountainous paths of the remote Iranian Kurdistan region. Carrying large blackboards on their backs, they wander from village to village in search of students. (Kimstim Films)
- Director: Samira Makhmalbaf
- Genre(s): Drama, War
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Positive: 10 out of 13
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Mixed: 1 out of 13
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Negative: 2 out of 13
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100Makhmalbaf continues her rise as Iran's most promising young female filmmaker, and Iranian cinema extends its reign as one of the world's most exciting cultural phenomena.
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40Episodic and minimalist to a fault, Blackboards makes its ironic point about education, then makes it again a few times over for good measure, rarely expanding beyond its narrow seriocomic agenda.
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20Blackboards is both shrill and soporific, and because everything is repeated five or six times, it can seem tiresomely simpleminded.