A celebration of the human spirit nothing short of sublime.
100
San Francisco ExaminerG. Allen Johnson
San Francisco ExaminerG. Allen Johnson
Kiarostami's genius is elusive. His films may be unknowable, but they are undeniably hypnotic, charismatic.
100
VarietyDeborah Young
VarietyDeborah Young
Takes the refined work of Iranian helmer Abbas Kiarostami up another notch to ever more metaphoric ground.
100
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
Chicago TribuneMichael Wilmington
A film poem of sometimes humbling beauty: a movie that opens up a new world to us - in the mountains of Iranian Kurdistan - with an enchanting freshness and austerity of vision.
Its effects seem more like those of a poem or a piece of music than a movie. Requires the reverent darkness and communal solitude of a theater.
90
Film.com
Film.com
Will test your powers of attention. The effort is worth every minute.
80
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
"Nothing happening" is everything happening between the lines, in the gap created between what is unstated onscreen and what we bring to the story ourselves.
63
New York PostJonathan Foreman
New York PostJonathan Foreman
Poetic but tedious and all but plotless.
63
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
San Francisco ChronicleEdward Guthmann
Film is often too subtle and languorous for its own purposes: At times, it's close to soporific.
60
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
On the surface, nothing really happens, but to call it a nonevent would be to miss the point entirely.