Nabat

Azerbaijan's Oscar submission, is an exquisitely shot minimalist tale of an elderly woman who finds herself the last remaining resident in a village evacuated during the Nagorno-Karabakh war of two decades ago. With little in the way of commercial prospects, the film's poetic strengths should nonetheless continue to find favour among viewers.

Bleak and greatly wordless as this tale is, there's a certain quiet grandeur to its unfolding. The low-key, somber colors and elegant crane shots of Abdulrahim Besharat's lensing make Nabat inevitably part of a pitiless yet graceful landscape. Hamed Sabet's sorrowful string score is only occasional present, capping an assembly as handsome as it is spare.

This is one of the saddest movies I've watched.The film doesn't have many conversations, but that is exactly what leaves enough space to think and think about life, about aging, about dying of the village while watching the film.It reminds me of my village in Kosovo, which is now deserted because the old are dying and the young are leaving.Even at the beginning of the film it could be seen that even before they left, the villagers were so gloomy, life in the village was dying even before they left..The film has a deep meaning and I would recommend everyone to watch it at least once.