Gabbeh
by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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Actor: Abbas Sayah, Hossein Moharami, Parvaneh Ghalandari, Rogheih Moharami, Shaghayeh DjodatDirector: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Cinematographer: Mahmoud Kalari
Editor: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Writer: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Producer: Khalil Daroudchi
Producer: Khalil Mahmoudi
Producer: Mostafa Mirzakhani
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Subtitled); Persian (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 75 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-09-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Yorker Video
Movie Reviews of Gabbeh
Movie Review: The Importance of Color In Weaving The Tapestry Of Life
Summary: 5 Stars
Note: Farsi with English subtitles.
Synopsis: While an old couple sit by the side of a stream washing a carpet (gabbeh), an attractive woman named Gabbeh (Shaghayeh Djodat) appears and begins to tell the story of her life. Before the tale comes to a conclusion you've learned not only about the young girl, but the meaning of life itself.
Released in '97, 'Gabbeh' is one of the most non-linear, intoxicating films I've ever seen. The colors are so intense, the landscape so exotic and the customs so vibrate one fills as though they've moved beyond the mundane world and entered into a another world of mythic proportions. There is so much to digest from this film; insights into the life and culture of a nomadic society, the magnificent cinematography and the manner in which filmmaker Mohsen Makhamalbaf blends the mundane with the sacred, accepting the cycles of life and the beauty of creation itself.
Be forewarned, this is one of those films that demands your full attention from beginning to end. Look away for a moment and you'll be completely lost. So make sure you're prepared to invest the time and effort before pushing the play button. This is probably not a film that you'll watch over and over again. But when your in the mood to be absorbed in color and texture this is what you'll reach for.
Summary of Gabbeh
"Dazzling! The bold, almost psychedelically vivid images are woven together with a dreamlike density as pure as that of The Blood of a Poet or Natural Born Killers." ?Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment WeeklyOne of the most critically acclaimed films of the year, Gabbeh is an epic tale of the forbidden passion that shapes the legend of a magical carpet.
A folkloric carpet (Gabbeh), picturing a man and a woman riding away on horseback, is the prized possession of a nomadic elderly couple. When they sit to wash it on the bank of a creek, a beautiful young woman suddenly emerges from the carpet to join them. Once held hostage by the endless restraints of the family that fashioned the carpet, she reveals the secret of the carpet lies within the mysterious black-clad rider on the white horse. Month after month, season after season, he had followed her family from afar, always present, always waiting, howling to her songs of love ? longing for her to run away with him.
Director Mohsen Makhmalbaf's masterpiece is a brilliantly colorful, profoundly romantic ode to beauty, nature, love and art.
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