Directed by Majid MajidiMy 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.
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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