Directed by Mohsen MakhmalbafMy rating: 2.5 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, New Yorker Films)
Mood piece from Makhmalbaf about a blind boy who displays an astonishing ability to listen to the world around him. The plot is thin, really nothing more than riding a bus to work each day, with a few tangents when he gets lost following the sound of music. There is some minor conflict with his mother who is hounding him to get money to pay the overdue rent and his boss who is threatening to fire him for being late every day. The boy also has an obsession with Beethoven's Fifth, at least the opening 4 notes of it, which are played incessantly throughout the movie on various instruments. Perhaps I've seen too many Iranian films about the blind recently (this is the third this week), but it was an oddly unmoving experience.
IMDb
(DVD, New Yorker Films)
Mood piece from Makhmalbaf about a blind boy who displays an astonishing ability to listen to the world around him. The plot is thin, really nothing more than riding a bus to work each day, with a few tangents when he gets lost following the sound of music. There is some minor conflict with his mother who is hounding him to get money to pay the overdue rent and his boss who is threatening to fire him for being late every day. The boy also has an obsession with Beethoven's Fifth, at least the opening 4 notes of it, which are played incessantly throughout the movie on various instruments. Perhaps I've seen too many Iranian films about the blind recently (this is the third this week), but it was an oddly unmoving experience.
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