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Rated: Unrated; DVD Release Date: Oct 07, 2003; Genres: Drama, Foreign Language; With: Shahab Ebrahimi and Iran Ghobadi; Distributor: Wellspring
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An elderly Kurdish musician persuades his two middle-aged sons to help him search for his ex-wife, endangered in wartorn Iraqi Kurdistan. Punctuations of lively music and unexpected humor elevate the journey, which is otherwise fraught with devastation -- thievery, poverty, bombing, and death. Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi brings the hopelessness of Saddam's Iraq to life with authenticity and wit. EXTRAS Just one: In an extended interview, Ghobadi reveals that he lived with the three actors -- real-life musicians who played at his sister's wedding -- for three months, and based much of the script on their personal stories. In doing so, he has created a fictional documentary of sorts, in which, he explains, ''the actors don't act anymore. They just relive their lives in front of my camera.''


Posted Oct 17, 2003
 

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