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Based on 11 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by:
Directed by: Abbas Kiarostami
Release Date:
Theatrical: May 3, 2002
DVD: June 21, 2005
Running Time: 84 minutes, Color
Origin: Iran
Language(s): English / Farsi (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Abbas Kiarostami, and Seyfolah Samadian
A documentary about the tragedy of the children whose parents have died of AIDS and are now stranded in a refugee camp in Kampala, Uganda.
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What The Critics Said
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The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
Beyond giving a human face to Uganda's crises, Kiarostami attempts to capture the actual place, a swirl of contradictions as vibrant and beautiful as it is troubled.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Dana Stevens
You come away from his film overwhelmed, hopeful and, perhaps paradoxically, illuminated.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Ann Hornaday
A gorgeous and surprisingly profound meditation on a place and its people.
Read Full Review >Variety Scott Foundas
Kiarostami shoots Africa with an uncanny verisimilitude, coming close here to his idea of a "poetic cinema" indebted more to poetry and music than the theatrical novelistic storytelling tradition.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
The emphasis in this surprisingly cheerful film is on the resilience of the living.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
The film is only superficially superficial, and it grows in meaning and resonance as it progresses.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
It's a surprisingly uplifting experience, and in the end, unmistakably a Kiarostami film.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
It's not enough for the film to show us a child's corpse wrapped in cardboard; we've got to step back to see Kiarostami himself shooting the sad sight, so that it becomes a Godardian ironic statement.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Michael O'Sullivan
This slight but insinuating documentary by Abbas Kiarostami...will do nothing to advance or detract from the reputation of the acclaimed Iranian filmmaker.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
This documentary fails to grasp AIDS as a theme.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.0 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jason P. gave it a9:
Much more complex than it appears. A poetic meditation on what it means to see suffering. Modest, humble, self-effacing and beautiful and utterly tragic in its commitment to realism.
Ciro frank S. gave it a 0:
orrible! Kiarostami easy tricky movie. See the adult's eyes in the movie. tourist point of you. never inside the situation bah!
J P. gave it an 8:
Very well done.
