Ashgar Farhadi

Ashgar Farhadi
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• Nader and Simin, A Separation - The Golden Bear at Berlin

(Iranian Film and Poetry) 

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, The Gardener

 

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, The Gardener, 2012

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... a surreal film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of father and son (the Makhmalbafs) (imdb) ... like living the forbidden dream ... the cinematic approach calling in mind Parajanov and his Sayat Nova ... Paula Asadi's apparition in the movie, a diaphanous dance, like she's coming from a god, impossible to define ... a prophetess telling an ethereal message ... and the birds drawing high in the sky paths seeming to go towards an unknown deity ... Baháʼí originated in Iran, where it is now forbidden, it is hosted by Israel, a land forbidden for Iranians ... a forbidden faith, beautiful as a forbidden dream, in a forbidden land ... a conversation between the two cameras (surajchew) ... and the impression that the movie is made just in front of your eyes, through trial and error ... a cinematic journey, inviting us to meditate together with them, about faith and reality, about the link (illusory? certain?) between the mundane and the beyond ... the father and the son are both agnostics, however their difference of age makes the difference ... for the father all he witnesses in the Baháʼí Gardens puts into question his ways ... the son is a rebel, with clear-cut certitudes and definitive answers ... we all passed through his age ... we all were once rebels ... and the meditation is ultimately not only about a religion (or any religion), it is about the path between objective and illusion ... our objective universe and the universe of art, or of faith ... but this is common to all great Iranian filmmakers ...

Mohsen Makhmalbaf, The Gardener, 2012
(video by Makhmalbaf Film House)

(Mohsen Makhmalbaf)

Ross Douthat in NY Times: The Pope Facing Radical German Priests

 

Pope Francis Faces Another German Reformation https://t.co/k44Jqb5iPC

— Pierre Radulescu (@pierreradulescu) May 11, 2021

(Church in America)

Le Ballon Rouge, 1956

Le Ballon Rouge, 1956
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Paris is all muted earth tones and grays, with the balloons offering the only vivid colors (lionel-libson-1)

Le Ballon Rouge, 1956
(video by Antonio Morales)

(Albert Lamorisse)

Fifi la Plume, 1965

Fifi la Plume, 1965
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Only those with a pure childlike soul will like it (RodrigAndrisan)

Fifi la Plume, 1965 (extrait)
(video by GG)

(Albert Lamorisse)

Le Vent des Amoureux (Bâd-e sabâ), 1978

Le Vent des Amoureux (Bâd-e sabâ), 1978
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The "narrators" of the film are the various winds (the warm, crimson, evil and lovers' winds), which according to folklore, inhabit Iran (imdb)

Le Vent des Amoureux (Bâd-e sabâ), 1978
(video by doostmusic)

(Albert Lamorisse)

Crin Blanc, 1953

Crin Blanc
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the Camargue ... where marshes and barren landscapes convey a sense both of awe-inspiring beauty and of hardship and unexpected danger (howard.schumann)

Crin Blanc, 1953
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(Albert Lamorisse)

Albert Lamorisse

Albert Lamorisse
1922 - 1970
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Un petit univers à part, l'enfant et son frère le ballon, l'enfant et son frère le cheval, le jeune et son frère ses ailes... tout un monde d'innocence et de rêve, balladant la Camargue, découvrant des petites merveilles au long des escaliers étroits aux maisons delabrées de Ménilmontant, ou bien flânant dans les vieux sites de l'Iran ... et tout ce qui les entoure, un monde hostile et méchant, brutale et stupide.

Et parce que tout cela devait porter un nom, Lamorisse nous l'a trouvé dans son dernier film. C'était le vent des amoureux.

• Crin Blanc, 1953
• Le Ballon Rouge, 1956
• Fifi la Plume, 1965
• Le Vent des Amoureux (Bâd-e sabâ), 1978

(Cinéma Français)