Pedar

An OK movie, with an ok plot, good acting, great music, but also some incoherent characters. Not really good, but better than the average US movie: 6/10.

The period when the West did not literally plunder the Middle East countries. The period in which original art was made comfortably in the Middle East. A movie that proves that a cliché story can turn into diamonds in the hands of a master. And Majid Majidi.

After the death of his father, 14 year old Mehrollah traveled to the southern town to find a job to support his mother and three baby sisters. Upon his return to his hometown with some gifts and the money he had saved for his family, Mehrollah was furious and confused to find the fact that his mother had remarried to a policeman and lived in a new home.

Although the policeman was a man of kind-hearted, Mehrollah refused to accept him to be his step-father. Mehrollah refused to go home to live with the new change, instead, he decorated and stayed in the old house that used to be his birth-father's.

Mehrollah tried everything to fight against his step-father, and even worse, he stoled the police-hand-gun from his step-father and ran away to a far away town. The policeman was mad and rode on his motocycle to the town, and caught Mehrollah.

On the home-bound road, they had a hard time lost in the wide desert and had to give up their broken-down motocycle. They walked on helplessly, thirsty and starving. The boy and his new father began to help each other under the hardship, and started a new relationship...

Director Majid Majidi is an expert who knows how to tell a simple story with deep meaning, with excellent camera language and very little dialogue.

This movie is calm and beautiful.

Majid majidi is one among the favourite directors across the globe known for his natural simplicity & expressing the human emotions as realistic as possible...

The film explores a father-son relationship, emotional bonding in distress which reminds us that world is so large yet so small if you pick the right emotion...

The perfection is in the way the story is so simple that every movement,every word is gigantic, it echoes and leaves a impression in the mind,whileCinematography is so vivid unravels the various forms of human emotions and its necessity making the human a typical social beast who can't survive on his own...

Overall a must watch movie that falls under a category to watch out before every individual's lifetime...

I am a fan of Majid Majidi and have been watching his work in reverse chronological order. Much like other Iranian directors, his early work shows great promise and is very enjoyable, but is clearly not up to the standard of his later work.

Pedar is a good enough film, enjoyable story, fine acting, the usual nice settings and camera work from Majidi. However, where it falls below his later work in standard is (just like The Color of Paradise)the lack of subtlety and nuances in this film ; it is overly-emotional and arguably melodramatic in places. People show their emotions by shouting and screaming in this film, which is a slightly coarse way of portraying their feelings. Majidi's later works, such as the great Willow Tree, offer a greater depth.

A good film, which was followed by better ones.