The Wind Will Carry Us (1999) | Iranian
Like all other Iranian films, this film by Abbas Kiarostami brings in nativity to its best. Script is about three men from Tehran traveling to a remote village disguised themselves as Engineers while hiding their real intentions for arriving to that village. These three men want to document a strange ritual carried on that village for the dead during funeral ceremony so they reach to that village after they get the news of a sick 100 year old women who might pass off any day which provides them with a opportunity for their visit. So they stay there waiting for her demise while in meantime getting used to village people , their culture and their life each day of their stay. Did they manage to get what they wanted remains the rest of the story. Movie is virtually good closely capturing reality of a breezy village with narrow streets, Sand dune houses , people and their hospitality were wonderfully portrayed in it supported by natural sounds as BGM. These are the movies which cant be measured in terms of screenplay as it is very slow moving or dragging capturing most of scenes in real-time with less edits to fit in , so this movie needs lots of patience to watch through but if you could connect to the film one could easily travel along with it. Enjoy watch it.
Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami quote: "It is a fact that films
without a story are not very popular with audiences, yet a story also
requires gaps, empty spaces like in a crossword puzzle, voids that it is
up to the audience to fill in. Or, like a private detective in a
thriller to discover. I believe in a type of cinema that gives greater
possibilities and time to its audience. A half-created cinema, an
unfinished cinema that attains completion through the creative spirit of
the audience, so resulting in hundreds of films. It belongs to the
members of the audience and corresponds to their own world."
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