The Wind Will Carry Us
by Abbas Kiarostami
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Actor: Behzad Dorani, Frangis Rahsepar, Masood Mansouri, Noghre Asadi, Roushan Karam ElmiDirector: Abbas Kiarostami
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-09-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Yorker Video
Movie Reviews of The Wind Will Carry Us
Movie Review: A Good Film School Movie
Summary: 3 Stars
I'll risk sounding pedestrian here. And I am fully aware that most of us in mainstream culture in present times have been spoiled to look at movie as instant gratification entertainment. But there are films that need no dissertation or thesis to admire. And then there are films where one rushes to amazon or cineaste websites, in a feverish anxiety, attempting to discover just what a viewer was supposed to be appreciating in a film he or she just spent 120 minutes moving glaciatically through.
The Wind Will Carry Us belongs to the latter category.
I assess a movie by its sum parts. Can scenes or parts be subtracted with the message intact? In this Kiarostami film, I found I kept subtracting until I finally reached one or two core scenes. The most accessible is the figure of the doctor who travels through the countryside looking at nature. The footage is so gorgeously shot, and the doctor's organic, earthy philosophy is rich to the point that I said, "oh, so THIS is the moment we've been waiting for!"
But what of the 110 minutes leading up to it? It's leisurely and it does capture the slow pace of a small remote village.. The regional light is richly tempered and the labyrinthian passages of the living quarters provides many opportunities for Ozu-inspired shots. The repetitive "pilgrimage" to the top of the mountain is a comedy in itself, worthy of a wireless cell phone commercial one imagines would play in Iran.
I don't want to read too much into it, so I'll just say, the film asserts it's right to exist, just as the small village continues, uninterrupted by "engineers" or documentarians who want to treat it as a petri dish culture for observation. We try to impose our values on the film, much like the visitors try to assert their schedule. In the end, outsiders are defeated and retreat, village and villagers triumph.
Summary of The Wind Will Carry Us
Studio: New Yorker Films Video Release Date: 09/17/2002 Run time: 118 minutesThe movies of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami defy the expectations of anyone raised on Hollywood or even European films. The Wind Will Carry Us, for example, is about a filmmaker who comes to a small village where an old woman is dying, hoping to document a harsh ritual of mourning practiced by the villagers. Unfortunately for him, the invalid clings to life, and he spends most of his time driving up and down a mountainside because his cell phone only gets good reception at the top. But while he waits and frets, around him the life of the village continues, and this vitality--captured in moments that seem like a diversion from the movie's supposed storyline--is fundamentally what The Wind Will Carry Us is about. What seems dull one moment will suddenly become a rich and subtle expression of human behavior. A strikingly different cinematic experience. --Bret Fetzer
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