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Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304274798
Format: Color, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
ISBN: 6304274793
Label: Evergreen Ent
Manufacturer: Evergreen Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Evergreen Ent
Release Date: July 29, 1997
Running Time: 85 minutes
Studio: Evergreen Ent
Theatrical Release Date: 1996
Sales Rank: 3241
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In the mid-to-late 1990s, Iran began to be recognized as a refreshing source of low-budget, wryly naturalistic filmmaking, and Jafar Panahi's The White Balloon (winner of the Camera d'Or award at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival) was the first Iranian film to get a U.S. art-house release. Simple and spare yet filled with observant detail, it's a mild, beguiling movie about a 7-year-old girl's tenacious quest to buy a cherished goldfish for her family's New Year's Day celebration. That's really all there is to it, but it's wonderfully warm, funny, and generous in spirit. With an almost miraculous ability to capture moments and reality unhindered by the presence of a camera and crew, Panahi handles this seemingly trivial story as a child's emotional odyssey, set amidst the daily rhythms of Teheran as a city where kindness and cruelty can be found in close proximity. Anyone interested in international films and filmmakers should give this one high priority on their list of must-see movies. --Jeff Shannon
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Through this curiously simple story, Abbas Kiarostami displays a breathtaking exploration around the social body of the Iranian nation, about a seven years old girl who, in the eve of the New year- 1374 according the Iranian calendar- in her desire to buy a goldfish, loses her money on the way.
Meanwhile, two dervishes, a gentle old lady, a distracted tailor, a talkative soldier, her brother and an afghan refugee will accompany her in order to help and comfort her, around that ... Read More
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Simply put, determined seven-year-old girls are one of the constants of the universe, and little Razieh is an excellent example of this. While not exactly spoiled, she is nonetheless sheltered from some of tense dynamics within her family --- and unfortunately, a stressed out mother and a father prone to violent outbursts also are far too easy for people across the world to relate to.
For Razieh, it is all pretty simple --- the quest for the extra-chubby goldfish, and dealing with the twists ... Read More
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Boring. The whining little girl was just plain annoying.
Other Iranian directors have been successful in getting around the censors while telling an interesting story. This director has failed. People who insist on seeing this film as artistic are trying too hard.
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I have become quite fond of Iranian films--many of them, like "The White Balloon", are charming and simply told, portraying real life without much of a plot or any special effects. It is interestingly done in real time.
Children seem to be the focus of many of these films, as they are in this one. The little girl was so appealing, despite her whining and pouting, that and I found myself aching for her when she lost her money and was trying to find it.
A good, slow-paced movie...glad ... Read More
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The Iranian cinema industry is filled with charming films like this one. It is very subtle and understated... a tale of a little girl who wishes so much for a goldfish she sees when she and her mother are passing through the city together. She is convinced that the goldfish they see in the shop is fatter, more beautiful and superior to the goldfish they already have swimming in the pond in their courtyard at home. She begs her mother for the money to get the goldfish, but her mother denies it. The little ... Read More
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