Kandahar
by Mohsen Makhmalbaf
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Actor: Hassan Tantai, Hoyatala Hakimi, Nelofer Pazira, Noam Morgensztern, Sadou TeymouriDirector: Mohsen Makhmalbaf
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Persian (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 85 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-05-13
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Yorker Video
Movie Reviews of Kandahar
Movie Review: Like many films from Muslim countries, "Kandahar" is vitally concerned with female emancipation...
Summary: 3 Stars
The film's great success with audiences was in part due to the timing of its release, at a moment when Afghanistan had been catapulted into the headlines by the activities of the Taliban and the attacks of September 11, 2001...
But the motion picture, directed by one of Iran's most prominent film artists, is much more than a story pulled out from the headlines... It stars Nelofer Pazira, a female journalist, based in Canada, playing Nafas, who is trying to get into Afghanistan to reach her sister who lives in Kandahar... Nafas's sister is threatening suicide because of the intolerable oppression of women by the Taliban...
In the course of her long and dangerous journey, Nafas encounters a mixed array of Afghan people, many of them refugees... An old man agrees to take her into the country disguised as his fourth wife... Later she acquires a young boy, Khak (Sadou Teymouri), as her guide after he has been expelled from a religious school... On the way she meets Tabib Sahid, an African-American who had come to fight the Soviets but who is now practicing medicine...
"Kandahar" mixes documentary authenticity with extraordinary moments of visual strangeness ad beauty... The Burka is an ever-present symbol of women's subjugation, yet underneath women wear varnished nails and lipstick, and their brightly-colored robes affirm their individuality... The film placed the suffering of the Afghan people, particularly the women, on an international stage...
Summary of Kandahar
Commentary by actress nelofer pazira this epic tale of hope & courage as an afghan born journalist returns to her homeland in a desperate attempt to reach her sister. Studio: New Yorker Films Video Release Date: 05/13/2003 Run time: 85 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Mohsen MakhmalbafThe prolific Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Gabbeh) had one of his most visible international successes with this haunting, open-ended drama. Set (and shot) during the Taliban era, it follows an Afghani-Canadian woman as she attempts to enter Afghanistan in search of a despondent sister. Since it is illegal for a woman to travel alone, she must rely on the kindness--or curiosity--of strangers, including a scrappy boy and a mysterious American doctor. The woman playing the lead role had earlier contacted Makhmalbaf about a similar real-life search, which prompted him to write the screenplay. The director doesn't really tell her story so much as he unveils a way of life: in the desert, we meet land-mine victims, Red Cross volunteers caught in a Catch-22 world, and women smothered in head-to-foot burkas. The portrait is one of oppression, but also of people furiously trying to get by. --Robert Horton
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