Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The Willow Tree (2005)

Directed by Majid Majidi
My rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, New Yorker Films)

Majidi returns to the blind, this time from an adult perspective, compared to his earlier film Color of Paradise which dealt with a child's blindness. Youssef goes to Paris to receive treatment for a growing tumor, but instead receives a cornea transplant which restores his sight. Back home in Iran, he cannot accept his old life and things begin to fall apart. He is attracted to a younger woman which prompts his wife to leave him. He doesn't return to his old job at the university and burns all of his books. In a dramatic change of events he loses his sight again and ends up wandering aimlessly down a busy freeway. Majidi tends to let this one get away from him, relying on melodramatics and coincidence to advance the plot, and it is not his best work.

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