- Studio: Sony Pictures Classics
- Release Date: Mar 24, 2000
- Summary: The story of an active 8 year-old blind boy who shows how he senses the world without sight. The film also follows the progress of the father-son relationship after the death of the mother.
- Director: Majid Majidi
- Genre(s): Drama, Family
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 24 out of 25
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Mixed: 1 out of 25
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Negative: 0 out of 25
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100The film's climax involves a father and son reunion that is tense, tragic and, finally, as transcendent as Mohammad himself.
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80A beautiful film from Iran explores beauty both physical and spiritual.
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80Like a Hollywood dolt, Majidi strives to overwhelm us with emphasis, but it's the reality he was savvy to load his movie with that's touching.
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50Although it has a good heart and a warm spirit, this prettily filmed drama is more sentimental and manipulative than earlier Iranian films on youth-related subjects.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 4 out of 4
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Mixed: 0 out of 4
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Negative: 0 out of 4
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NaveenA.10This is a wonderful movie. It is sheer poetry on cellulide. The last scene brings tears in viewer's eyes.
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JunaD.10
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