The Willow Tree

Name: The Willow Tree
Genre: Drama
Released: August 3, 2007
Duration: 96 min
Rating: 74

2007

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GreeneStreet Films International | Release Date: August 3, 2007

Summary: Blind since childhood, Youssef has a devoted wife, loving daughter, and successful university
career, but his affliction fills him with secret torment. As if in answer to his prayers, a Paris clinic
restores his sight - a miracle that is double-edged. Although this new world of sight and color floods Youssef with ecstasy, it also plungesBlind since childhood, Youssef has a devoted wife, loving daughter, and successful university
career, but his affliction fills him with secret torment. As if in answer to his prayers, a Paris clinic
restores his sight - a miracle that is double-edged. Although this new world of sight and color
floods Youssef with ecstasy, it also plunges him into a labyrinth of confusions and temptations. A
pretty student begins to eclipse his dowdy, previously invisible wife. In one disturbing scene, he
silently watches a subway pickpocket, who fixes him with a look of withering complicity. Eager to
claim the lost life he feels he is owed but unable to take the next step, Youssef is inflamed with
possibility and paralyzed with egoism. (New Yorker Films)… Expand

Director: Majid Majidi

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 96 min

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Andrew O'Hehir

Majid Majidi's exquisite film The Willow Tree"is likely to make a very brief stop in theaters en route to home video, so catch it when and if you can. Read full review

Julia Wallace

There's very little explicit exposition here; instead, Majidi presents us with a series of glistening tone poems. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Although The Willow Tree occasionally suffers from a surfeit of portentous symbolism, it is ultimately a powerful portrait of a man who gets what he always wanted. Read full review

Stephen Holden

The Iranian director Majid Majidi’s sad, soulful film The Willow Tree is his second movie to explore blindness and sight on multiple levels. Read full review

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JaredC.

Aug 12, 2007

One of the best drama movies of the decade. The idea is great, and it is full of imagination and wonder, activities in this film's plot continuously flows with the style of blind men.

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