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- 2000
- Not Rated
- Shooting Gallery
- 1 h 20 m
- 2000
- Not Rated
- Shooting Gallery
- 1 h 20 m
Summary When the youngest boy of a destitute Iranian Kurdish family suffers from a terminal illness, his young siblings struggle to pay for a life-saving operation. (Shooting Gallery)
Directed By: Bahman Ghobadi
Written By: Bahman Ghobadi
- 2000
- Not Rated
- Shooting Gallery
- 1 h 20 m
- 2000
- Not Rated
- Shooting Gallery
- 1 h 20 m
A Time for Drunken Horses
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7.1
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Summary When the youngest boy of a destitute Iranian Kurdish family suffers from a terminal illness, his young siblings struggle to pay for a life-saving operation. (Shooting Gallery)
Directed By: Bahman Ghobadi
Written By: Bahman Ghobadi
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
78
92% Positive
22 Reviews
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8% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 24 Critic Reviews
78
92% Positive
22 Reviews
22 Reviews
8% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Presents us with characters of such humanity and dignity that it begins to seem obscene that until now we haven't exactly given all that much thought to the Kurds.
A profoundly anxious picture that from its first frame holds you, clenched, never able to let go, even after its unresolved coda.
It is all the more heart-wrenching for being realistic. Its portrait of child labor brooks no sentimentality and no cliches.
Brief, spare and heartbreaking.
A wrenching film.
Ghobadi works squarely in the neorealist tradition of countrymen like former mentor Abbas Kiarostami, using nonprofessional actors and documentary technique to tell small, spare stories of the human condition through the eyes of children.
In Bahman Ghobadi's heart-tugger about Kurdish orphans, those wide eyes are too often used as a manipulative device.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
7.1
77% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 13 User Ratings
7.1
77% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
0% Mixed
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23% Negative
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Production Company
Bahman Ghobadi Films,
Farabi Cinema Foundation,
MK2 Productions,
Mij Film Co.
Release Date Oct 27, 2000
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
Awards
National Board of Review, USA
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Cannes Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Gijón International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
