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Half Moon
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Half Moon reviews
Critic Score
Metascore: 72 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
9.0 out of 10
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MPAA RATING: Not Rated

Starring Golshifteh Farahani, Ismail Ghaffari, Allah-Morad Rashtian, and Hedye Tehrani

Mamo, the old renowned Kurdish musician, has begun a journey to Iraq to perform a music concert after the fall of Saddam Hussein. The Old of the village has predicted that Mamo should not go on the trip because as the full moon comes, something awful will happen to him. Mamo persists on continuing his journey because it's the first time he's been allowed to work in many years. (Miji Film)


GENRE(S): Comedy  |  Drama  
WRITTEN BY: Behnam Behzadi
Bahman Ghobadi
 
DIRECTED BY: Bahman Ghobadi  
RELEASE DATE: DVD: March 4, 2008 
Theatrical: December 14, 2007 
RUNNING TIME: 114 minutes,  
ORIGIN: Austria / France / Iran / Iraq 
LANGUAGE(S): Kurdish / Persian 

Alternative Title: Niwemang

What The Critics Said

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80
The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis
Fateful and funny, haunting and magical.
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80
Los Angeles Times Sheri Linden
An eloquent and audacious lament.
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80
Empire David Parkinson
An unflinching and affecting depiction of the region’s tragic lunacies.
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75
New York Post V.A. Musetto
By terms moving and funny, the story reaches its apex when Half Moon, a beautiful young woman played by Golshifteh Farahani, makes her appearance from out of nowhere. Is she real, or perhaps an angel? You'll have fun trying to come up with an answer.
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70
LA Weekly Scott Foundas
In a boom time for movies about the scars of the battlefield, Half Moon reminds that the unending strife and religious fundamentalism of the Middle East kills not just people but culture too.
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70
Chicago Reader Andrea Gronvall
The suspicion and contempt the band encounters along the way symbolize the Kurds' historical sufferings, but the movie has many comic moments courtesy of the eager bus driver, who keeps putting his foot in his mouth. The nonprofessional cast is highly persuasive under the sure hand of director Bahman Ghobadi (A Time for Drunken Horses).
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70
The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
Ghobadi always uses non-pro actors but you would never know. In fact, professionals wouldn't do theses roles justice since the recruited performers are partly playing themselves and partly playing people Ghobadi has known since he was a boy.
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70
Village Voice Aaron Hillis
Writer-director Bahman Ghobadi's picturesque road trip is less about preserving a musical heritage than accepting one's fate, a mythic trek that's both heartrending and boisterous--often as hauntingly absurdist as a Kusturica carnival.
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70
Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern
This is a road movie unlike any other, the comical and mystical odyssey of old Mamo (an extraordinary performance by Ismail Ghaffari), a venerated musician who heads for Iraq from exile in Kurdish Iran with a busload of his musician sons to give a concert after Saddam's fall.
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